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MRS. SARA T. KINNEY 
STATE REGENT CONNECTICUT DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 



CHAPTER SKETCHES 

Connecticut 

DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 



{patriots' Daughters 



EDITED BY 

MARY FHILOTrlETA KOOTj A,B. 
Kathcrine Gaylord Chapter, Bristol 

With an Introduction by 
ROSE E, CLEVELAND 



« « « « 



PUBLISHED BY 

CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 

SOLD BY 

THE EDWARD P. JUDD CO. 
NEW HAVEN 



5 



Suppose it flashes upon you some day * * * the hardships and perils and con- 
flicts of the forefathers — their patient endurance of privations, their brave defiance 
of dangers, their offerings of treasure and blood made to found, liberate, defend and 
preserve our country. *** That thought must kindle the fame of patriotism upon 
the altar of your heart. — HENRY VAN DYKE. 

Great men there -cere but there was greatness also in the volunteers oj the rank 
and file, and I for one shall continue to find more incentive to enthusiasm in the 

nition of this than in a dozen solitary individuals. — CHARLES COFFIN, American 
Masters of Sculpture. 



Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1904 
by Mary Philotheta Root 



LIBRARY Of C0NGRESS| 

Two Copies Received 

DEC 17 1904 

Copyrmnt Entry 

Xm<, 2 ■ / <? a v- 

CUSS a XXc. N01 
COHY B. 



TTLE, MOREHOUSE A TAYLOR CO., 



INTRODUCTION 




HAT IS WORTH WHILE? This question, in one form 
or another, confronts us at every stage of the human 
career. It gains more and more insistence as the road 
behind lengthens, and the dreams of youth depart. Fic- 
tions lose their power to impose upon us a sense of reality. We 
demand occupation of mind and heart, worthy the lessening 
future. 

I think that the legitimate occupation of a real live Daughter 
of the American Revolution offers one very promising solution of 
this problem ; and I think the mere fact of the production of this 
book, for which I am asked to write a brief preface, is a proof of 
the truth of my proposition. There never was anything more worth 
while than the American Revolution ; and there is nothing more 
worth while than the realizing it, in all its unending consequence, 
and realizing it all the time. 

The very first step toward this vital individual realizing of this 
most worth while of all human performances, is the consciousness 
of our distance from it. How many are there of us, to whom 
the mention of this matchless performance brings anything more 
than a big Blur? This immense Blur which is the most the great 
majority of us have in mind as our acquaintance with the most 
precious bequest our forefathers made us, is not excusable. We 
have had time for its study, but we have taken that time for other 
things ; what things, each of us can best enumerate for herself. 

Of the cheering fact that some women have changed all that, this 
book is abundant proof, and the existence of the Society from which 
it emanates, a still greater one. Here and there, one and another 
have been realizing the importance to Americans, now and forever, 
of the American Revolution, and have occupied themselves with the 



IV [INTRODUCTION. 

task of bringing this realization to others. This book makes its 
contribution toward this end in an especially happy way. We are 
introduced to a worth)- and worth-while woman by the modest name 
of the Daughter, hut when we have met her, we have met her Father, 
the Forefather and the patriot, the man who carried the musket and 
confronted the red-coat: we have looked down his line, we have 
seen his beginnings, we have looked at his house and his furniture, 
and — best of all — we have made acquaintance with his family in the 
person of his daughter, who, yet among- us, bends but not breaks 
with the weight of her years, and, like her oaken ancestry, "stands 
stiff as a pillar" in her house of immortal fame. Ave ! Ave ! 

This simple series of sketches, put so modestly before us, carries 
a freight of rich treasure. Women have a gift, fatal sometimes, of 
being better than their word : of giving overmeasure ; of handing 
over, along with the husk which was bargained for, the treasure 
which it conceals. It is so in this case. The "sketch" for which 
the venerable member of the Connecticut branch of the Society of 
the Daughters of the American Revolution is raison d'etre, covers 
history in details of inestimable value which the world would not 
willingly let die, yet which it could not come by elsewhere or other- 
wise. It does more than this : it puts before us a morsel so palatable, 
so appetite-begetting, that if it be tasted, I venture the prophecy, 
the hunger it excites will cry for more and more ! The reader of 
the "sketch" will become a student of American History, and will 
experience a change of occupation, because a change of taste. Mrs. 
Kinney's "Daughters" have been faithful in the little which shall 
make them rulers over much. Facile princeps inter pares. 

Rose E. Cleveland. 



Patriots' Daughters in Connecticut Chapters 



IN THE ORDER OF 

THEIR ADMISSION TO THE NATIONAL SOCIETY, D. A. R. 





Chapter and Town. 


National 
Number. 


Name, Birth and Death Date. 


Name of Patriot 

and his Age at Opening 

of Revolution.* 


I 


Norwalk 

Norwalk. 


2480 


Juliette Betts 

b. 1805 ; d. 1896. 


Hezekiah Betts, 
15 years. 


2 Ruth Wvllvs 


3098 


Tirzah M. Parsons 


Israel Parsons, 




Hartford. 


b. 1812 ; d. 1900. 


13 years. 


3 


Mary Clap Wooster 

New Haven. 


3379 


Emily Louise Gerry 

b. 1802 ; d. 1894. 


Elbridge Gerry, 
31 years. 


4 


Dorothy Ripley 

Southport. 


4005 


Mary Augusta(Hyde) Sherwood 
b. 1813 ; d. 1894. 


Joseph Hyde, 
14 years. 


5 


Melicent Porter 

Waterbury. 


4393 


Rhoda A. Thomson 

b. 1821. 


Thaddeus Thomson, 
13 years. 


6 


Ruth Hart 

Meriden. 


4797 


Betsey (Parker) Jeralds 

b. 1807 ; d. 1901. 


Stephen Parker, 
16 years. 


7 


Anna Warner Bailey. . . . 
Groton and Stonington. 


5035 


Lucy (Stanton) Wheeler 

b. 1806 ; d. 1904. 


Edward Stanton, 
14 years. 


S 


Mystic. 


6459 


Nancy Lord (Wheeler) Stanton 
b. i8ll ; d. 1896. 


Isaac Wheeler, Jr., 
7 years. 


9 


Mary Silliman 


6680 


Abby Holt 


Nathaniel Holt. 


Bridgeport. 


b.1811. 




IO 


Bristol. 


8098 


Mary I. Robbins 

b. ; d. 1901. 


Ebenezer Robbins, 
17 years. 


ii 


At large 


8169 


Maria (Sumner) Vinton 

b. ; d. 1898. 


Benjamin Sumner, 
II years. 


12 


Lucretia Shaw 


8666 


Caroline (Holt) Clark 

b. 1804 ; d. 1903. 


Ebenezer Holt, Jr., 
15 years. 




New London. 


13 


Abigail Phelps 

Simsbury. 


8679 


Mahala Terry 

b. 1802 ; d. 1902. 


Samuel Terry, 
22 years. 


14 


Anna Warner Bailey. . . . 
Groton and Stonington. 


8968 


Martha Babcock(Noyes)Noyes 
b. 1806 : d. 1900. 


Sanford Noyes, 
14 years. 


15 


Lucretia Shaw 

New London. 


8975 


Charlotte Augusta Burbeck. . 
b. 1818 ; d. 1897. 


Henry Burbeck, 
21 years. 



* Many of these patriots enlisted several years after the opening, or near the close of the Revolution. 



VI 



PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



Chapter and Town. 



[6 Anna Warner Bailey. . . 
Groton and Stonington 

17 Anna Warner Bailey... 
Groton and Stonington 

Anna Wai net I lailey. . . 
Groton and Stonington 

[9 Anna Warner Bailey. . . 
Groton and Stonington 

Lucretia Shaw 

New London. 

Anne Wood Elderkin. . . 
Willimantic. 

22 Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth 
Windsor. 



23 
24 

25 
26 

27 
28 
29 
30 
31 



National 
Number. 



Ruth Hart 

Meriden. 

Abigail Phelps 

Si ms bury. 

Susan Carrington Clarke 
Meriden. 

Anna Warner Bailey. . . . 
Groton and Stonington. 

Mary Wooster 

Danbury. 



Orford Parish 

South Manchester. 

Susan Carrington Clarke 

Meriden. 



Ruth Hart. 
M eriden. 

Ruth Hart. 
Meriden. 



32 Ruth Wyllys 
Hartford. 



33 I Susan Carrington Clarke 
Meriden. 



9474 
9475 
9481 

9482 

9498 
10301 

10359 
10911 
10962 
11366 
11841 
12242 
12485 

12539 
12546 

•2547 
I3I47 
"3193 



Name, Birth and Death Date. 



Mary (Spicer) Gates 
b. 1813. 



Elizabeth (Spicer) Fox. . . 
b. 1820. 

Rachel (Spicer) Packer . . 
b. 1822. 

Sally M. (Davis) Brayton 
b. 1811 ; d. 1900. 



Asenath Howe 

b. 1801 ; d. 1899. 



Name of Patriot 

and his Age at Opening 

of Revolution. 



Angelina (Loring) Avery 
b. 1839. 



Anna Maria Benton 
b. 1797 ; d. 1898. 



Mary (Todd) Hall 

b. 1805 ; d. 1897. 

Rachel Selina (Fowler) Belden 
b. 1806 ; d. 1899. 

Abigail (Atwater) Bradley 

b. 1800 ; d. 1897. 

Marv K. Williams 

b.' 1811 ; d. 1898. 

Lucy Maria Osborne 

b. 1807. 

Harriet Hollister 

b. 1803 ; d. 1900. 

Delia C. (Murdock) Dowd. . . 
b. 1807 ; d. 1897. 

Almira (Hunting) Butler 

b. 1806 ; d. 1897. 



leniima M. (Doane) Snow. . . 
b. 1810. 

Florilla (Swetland) Pierce. . . 
b. 1803. 



Almira Foster 

b. 1805 ; d. 1900. 



Abel Spicer, 
15 years. 

Abel Spicer, 
15 years. 

Abel Spicer, 

15 years. 

Samuel Davis, 

16 years. 

Israel Howe, 
16 years. 

Solomon Loring, 
9 years. 

Eliliu Stanle}' Benton, 
13 years. 

Thelus Todd, 

12 years. 

Bildad Fowler, 
35 years. 

Samuel Atwater, 

18 years. 

Riifus Williams, 

13 years. 

Levi Osborne, 
12 years. 

Josiah Hollister, 

19 years. 

Peter Murdock, 
9 years. 

Amos Hunting, 
12 years. 

Joel Doane, 
12 years. 

Benjamin Swetland, 
19 years. 

Abel Foster, 
23 years. 



NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



Chapter and Town. 



National 
Number. 



Name, Birth and Death Date. 



Name of Pan iol 

and his Age at < Ipening 

of Revolution. 



34 Susan Carrington Clarke! 13195 

Meriden. 

35 Susan Carrington Clarke 13 196 

Meriden. 

36 Susan Carrington Clarke, 13197 

Meriden. 

37 Mary Silliman 13201 

Bridgeport. 

3S Wadsworth 13205 

Middletown. 

39 Emma Hart Willard .... 13216 

Berlin. 

40 Sarah Ludlow '3219 

Seymour. 

41 Mary Silliman 139OO 

Bridgeport. 

42 Lucretia Shaw 13917 

New London. 

4.3 Anne Wood Elderkin. . . 13924 
Willimantic. 

44 Orford Parish 13925 

South Manchester. 

45 Melicent Porter 1 4725 

Waterbury. 

46 Susan Carrington Clarke 14747 

Meriden. 

47 Sibbil Dwight Kent '5473 

Suffield. 

48 Sibbil Dwight Kent 15484 

Suffield. 

49 Dorothy Ripley 16003 

Southport. 

50 Susan Carrington Clarke 10050 

Meriden. 

51 Susan Carrington Clarke 16051 

Meriden. 



Ann (Tyler) Beaumont John Tyler, 

b. 1803 ; d. 1898. 15 years.' 

Maria (Ives) Parker Ichabod Ives, 

1). 1802 ; d. 1897. 16 years. 

Elizabeth (McAlpine) Finch. . John McAIpine, 
b. 1805; d. 1903. 11 years. 

Caroline (Pinto) Mubbell William Pinto, 

t>. 1819. 15 years. 

Mary (McLean) Wyllys James McLean, 

b. 1804 ; d. 1904. ' 20 years 

Emily (Savage) Roys Selah Savage, 

b. 1811 ; d. 1896. 16 years. 

Sarah (Candee) Fairchild ... Job Candee, 
b. 1807; d. 1899. 15 years. 

Augusta (Way) Tuller Isaac Way, 

b. 1805 ! d - !90i. 17 years. 

Harriet (Forsyth) Smith Latham Forsyth, 

b. 1817. 14 years. 

Minerva (Grant) Snow Hamilton Grant, 

b. 1817. 16 years. 

Maty iHollister) Pitkin Josiah Hollister, 

b. 1798; d. 1897. 19 years. 

Maria (Hinman) Pulford Joel Hinman, 

b. 1807; d. 1897. 27 years. 

Bedotha P. (Button) Curtis . . Newbury Button, 
b. 1810 ; d. 1899. 9 years. 

Anna H. (Burnap) Pierce John Bitmap, 

b. 1807 i d - l8 98. 13 years. 

Mary E. (Burns) Woodworth William Burns, 
b. 1817 ; d. 1898. 13 years. 

Jane (Smith) Eveleth Benjamin Smith, 

b. 1816 ; d. 1900. 10 years. 

Nancy (does) Ray Charles Cloes, 

b. 1796 ; d. 1898. 19 years. 

Esther (Robbins) Tyler Ebenezer Robbins, 

b. 1820. 17 years. 



PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



52 

53 
54 
55 
56 



( Chapter ami Tow a. 



National 
Number. 



Name, Birth and Death Date. 



Faith Trumbull 

N orwich. 

Susan ' .11 rington Clarke 
M ci iden. 

Susan ( Harrington < Ilarke 
M11 iden. 



Sabra Trumbull 
l\iick\ [lie. 



Fanny Ledyard, 
M vstic. 



57 Elizabeth Porter Putnam 
Putnam. 

; - Anne I Irewstei Fanning . 
fewett City. 



16568 
16619 
17419 
17428 
19044 
19069 
19644 



Name of Patriot 

and his Age at Opening' 

of Revolution. 



Lydia W. (Moore) Holden . 
b. 1818 ; d. 1900. 

Electa A. (Manchester) Van 
b. 1809; d. 1899. [Vleck 

Mabel (Cooley) Hobart 

b. 1811 ; d. 1904. 



Amy Strickland 

b. 1800 ; d. 1897. 

Abbyline (Tift) Starr. 
b. 1806 ; d. 1901. 



Sarah (Anderson) Exton. 
b. 1807 ; d. 1899. 

Eunice (Palmer) Davis . . 
b. 1 819 ; d. 1900. 



David Moore, 
23 years. 

Joseph Manchester, 
15 years. 

George Cooley. 



Seth Strickland, 
17 years. 

Solomon Tift, 

17 years. 

George Anderson, 
24 years. 

Benjamin Palmer, 

18 years. 



59 


Ruth I [art 


19660 


Sylvia (Langdon) Dunham . . . 
b. 1800. 




Meriden. 


12 years. 


60 


Ruth Wyllys 


19670 


Caroline Foster 






1 larlford. 


b. 1816. 


10 years. 


61 


1 lannah Wood] nil" 

Si luthington. 


20174 


Jennette (Carter) Higgins. . . . 
b. 1803; d. 1898." 


Elihu Carter, 
16 years. 


62 


1 lannah Woodruff 

Southington. 


20175 


Nancy (Root) Potter 






b. 1801 ; d. 1899. 


23 years. 


63 


1 lannah W01 idruff 

Southington. 


20176 


Emma (Dutton) ( hiill 

b. 1808; d. 1899. 


Timothy Dutton, 
14 years. 


64 


Ruth 1 [art 


20195 


Mary Spooner 

b. 1794 ; d. 1899. 


Micah Spooner, 
21 years. 


M ei iden. 


65 


Rockville. 


20196 


Emeline (Noble) Hollister . . . 
b. 1802 ; d. 1900. 


Gideon Noble, 
12 years. 


66 


1 >oroth} Ripley 

Southport. 


20791 


Pamela Banks 

b. 1804; d. 1898. 


Nathan Banks, 
15 years. 


67 


Man ( )lap Woostcr 

\ ew 1 laven. 


20825 


Phebe (Kimberly) Castle .... 
b. 1815. 


Ezra Kimberly, 
II years. 


68 


Mar) < )lap Wooster 

New 1 [aven. 


20828 


Lucretia Kimberly 

b. 1821 ; d. 1900. 


Ezra Kimberly, 
II years. 


69 


Wadsworth 

M iddletown. 


2i37« 


A bigail 1 Foote) Loomis 

b. 1798 ; d. 1899. 


Nathaniel Foote, 
33 years. 



NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 





Chapter and Town. 


National 
Number. 


Name, Birth and Death Date. 


Name of Patriot 

and his Age at Opening 

of Revolution. 


70 


Green Woods 

Winsted. 




21426 


Mary Augusta (Steele) Cleve- 
b. 1818. [land 


John Steel, 
16 years, 


71 


Dorothy Ripley 

Southport. 




21858 


Julia (Hanks) Wilson 

b. 1807 ; d. 1900. 


Elijah Banks, 
13 years. 


72 


Hannah Woodruff . . . 
Southington. 




21875 


Betsey (Payne) Ives 

b. 1803 ; d. 1898. 


Thomas Payne, 
17 years. 


73 


Susan Carrington Clar 
Meriden. 


ke 


21896 


Martha (Abell) Rich 

b. 1806 ; d. 1902. 


Abel Abell, 
18 years. 


74 


Susan Carrington Clai 
Meriden. 


ke 


21901 


Caroline (Brockway) Pratt . . . 
b. 1815 ; d. 1900. 


John Brockway, 
18 years. 


75 


Susan Carrington Clai 
Meriden. 


ke 


21902 


Anne D. (Phillips) Lee 

b. 1803 ; d. 1899. 


Thompson Phillips, 
23 years. 


76 


Susan Carrington Clai 
Meriden. 


ke 


21905 


Phoebe (Rockwell) Gainford.. 
b. 1805. 


Jabez Rockwell, 
14 years. 


77 


Elizabeth Porter Putnam 
Putnam. 


22501 


Hepzibah M. (Smith) Rhodes, 
b. 1810; d. 1898. 


Alexander Smith, 
13 years. 


78 






22504 


Caroline (Way) Clarke 

b. ; d. 1902. 


Elisha Way, 


Norwich. 




18 years. 


79 


Ruth Hart 




22528 


Jerusha L. (Doane) Carter . . . 
b. 1806 ; d. 1899. 


Joel Doane, 


Meriden. 




12 years. 


80 


Susan Carrington Clai 
Meriden. 


ke 


22545 


Maria (Bronson) Bradley 

b. 1807. 


Joseph Bronson, 
19 years. 


81 


Ruth Wyllys 




23345 


Statira (Hodge) Beardslee. . . . 
b. 1808; d. 1899. 


Philo Hodge, 




Hartford. 




19 years. 


82 


Sabra Trumbull 

Rockville. 




23560 


Julia (Eddy) Calder 

b. 1828. 


Barnard Eddy, 
13 years. 


83 


Hannah Woodruff . . . 
Southington. 




23649 


Lois (Johnson) Upson 

b. 1817 ; d. 1900. 


Levi Johnson, 
13 years. 


84 


Seymour. 




23676 


A ugusta 1 Wooster) Lum 

b. 1802 ; d. 1899. 


Ephraim Wooster, 

II year-. 


85 


Susan Carrington Clarke 
Meriden. 


23681 




Eliada Osborn, 


1). 1801 ; d. 1899. 


14 years. 


86 


Sabra Trumbull 




23682 


Anna P. (Knowlton) Bird. . . . 
b. 1812 ; d. 1901. 


William Knowlton, 




Rockville. 




8 \ ears. 


87 


Wadsworth 

Middletown. 




23689 


Mary J. Deming 

b. 1807 ; d. 1899. 


Edmund Deming, 
16 years. 



PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 





Chapter and Town. 


National 
Number. 


Name, Birth and Death Date. 


Name of Patriot 

and his Age at Opening 

of Revolution. 


88 




24472 


Nancy Ann (Gifford) Warren 
b. 1831. 


Elisha GifTord, 




Stamford. 


27 years. 


S 9 


Middletown. 


24473 


Emilia Ad aline (CI ark) Watrous 
b. 1805 ; d. 1901. 


David Clark, 
15 years. 


90 


Elizabeth ("lark Hull ... 
Ansonia. 


24515 


Minerva (Blake) Howland . . . 
b. 1804 ; d. 1900. 


Reuben Blake, 
10 years. 


" 


Farm)' Ledyard 

M\ stic. 


2452O 


Marv Ann Wheeler 

b. 1820 ; d. 1903. 


Isaac Wheeler, Jr., 
7 years. 


92 


I lannah Woodruff 

Southington. 


24521 


Harriet (Reid) Crissey 

b. 1809. 


Asa Reid, 
27 years. 


93 


Orford Parish 


25"23 


Lydia (Alexander) Couch. . . . 
b. 1810. 


Thomas Alexander, 


South Manchester. 


16 years. 


94 


Wadsworth 

Middletown. 


25666 


Laura A. (Markham) Skinner 
b. 1813 ; d. 1902. 


John Markham, 
19 years. 


95 


Anne Brewster Fanning 
Jewett City. 


25936 


Phebe (Palmer) Ray 

b. 1825. 


Benjamin Palmer, 
18 years. 


96 


Sarah Riggs Humphreys 

1). ihy. 


25985 


Eliza (Wheeler) Bailey 

b. 1815 ; d. 1899. 


Hezekiah Wheeler, 
31 years. 


97 


Ruth Hart 

Meriden. 


29407 


Mary Ann (Lucas) Dart 

b. 1811. 


Israel Lucas, 
41 years. 


98 


Norwalk 

Norwalk. 


30603 


Charlotte (Keeler) Raymond. . 
b. 1819. 


Justus Keeler, 
25 years. 


99 


Elizabeth Porter Putnam 
Putnam 


3661 1 


Hannah (Green) Robbins .... 
b. 1808. 


Joseph Green, 
19 years. 


100 


Stamford 


40208 


Lucretia (Holly) Town 

b. 1810 ; d. 1903. 


John Holly, 
15 years. 




Stamford. 


toi 


I lannah Woodruff 

Southington. 


48316 


Emily (Parmele) Collins*. . . . 
b. 1814. 


James Parmele, 
18 years. 



entrance papers were accepted by the National Society in October, 1904. A very interesting 
biographical sketch was partly prepared late in November from an article on Mrs. Collins which appeared in the 
Hartford Times (Sept. 10, 1904), but was not completed until December 2, too late to be included in this volume, 
much t<> the regret of the editor and compilers. 



Amid these glories, the heart will thank the prophet \Zechariah~\ most for his 
immortal picture of the streets of the New Jerusalem, "Old men and old 'women 
sitting in the sun." 

The poor colony of Jerusalem * * * was a rough, hard society, unblessed by the 
two benedictions of life, childhood and old age. Constant -warfare allowed few to 
reach grey hairs. But all this should be changed. Thus saiih Jehovah of Hosts: 
"Old men and old women shall yet sit in the streets of Jerusalem each with staff in 
hand for fullness of days; and the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls 
playing in her streets."— GEORGE ADAM SMITH. 



PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



< ihaptei and 



[6 \ nn.i Warnei Bailey. . . 
i rroton and Stonington 

i 7 Anna Warnei Bailey. . . 
Groton and Stonington 

Anna Wai nei I lailey . . . 
Groton and Stonington 

i | \ r i n .i W'anur Bailey. . . 
( rroton and Stonington 

j<> Lucretia Shaw 

New London. 

21 Anne Wood Elderkin. . . 

Willimantic. 

22 Abigail Wolcott Ellswoi tli 

Windsor. 



23 Ruth Hart 

Meriden. 

24 Abigail PHelps, 

Simsbury. 



Numbei . 



25 
26 
27 
28 
29 
jo 
3' 



Susan Carrington Clarke 
Mil iden. 

Anna Warner Bailey. . . . 
» rroton and Stonington. 



Mar) Woostei . 
Danbury. 



rd Parish 

South Mam hestei . 

Susan ( .11 rington ( Mai ke 
Mi 1 iden. 



Ruth I lart. 
Mei iden. 

Ruth 1 lart. 
Meriden. 



32 Ruth Wyllys 
Hartford. 



m ( !arrington ( )larke 
Mei iden. 



9474 
9475 
948i 
9482 
9498 
10301 

• 0359 
IOOII 

10962 
1 1366 
11841 
12242 

12485 
"2539 
12546 

12547 
»3i47 
13193 



Name. Birth and Death Date. 



Mary (Spicer) Gates . . . 
b. 1813. 

Elizabeth (Spicer) Fox. 
1). 1820. 



Rachel (Spicer) Packer . . . 
1). 1822. 

Sally M. (Davis) Brayton . 
1). 1811 ; d. 1900. 



A senath 1 lowe 

b. 1801 ; d. 1899. 



Name of Patriot 

and Ins Age at Opening 

of Revolution. 



\ ngelina ( Loring) Avery 
b. 1839. 

Anna Maria Benton .... 
1). 1797 ; d. 1898. 



Marv(Todd) Hall | 

b. 1805 ; d. 1897. 

Rachel Selina ( Fowler) Belden 
1). 1806 ; d. 1899. 

Abigail (Atwater) Bradley 

b. 1800 ; d. 1897. 

Man K. Williams 

b." 181 1 , d. 1808. 



Lucy Maria Osborne 

b. 1807. 

I Ian ict I lollister 

b. 1803 ; d. 1900. 

Delia C. (Murdock) Dowd. . . 
b. 1807 ; d. 1897. 

A 1 mil a ( Hunting) Butler 

b. 1806 ; d. 1897. 

lemima M. ( Doane) Snow. 
b. 1810. 

Florilla 1 Swetland) Pierce. . . 
b. 1803. 

Almira Foster 

b. 1805; d. 1900. 



Abel Spicer, 
15 years. 

Abel Spicer, 
15 years. 

Abel Spicer, 

15 years. 

Samuel Davis, 

16 years. 

Israel Howe, 
16 years. 

Solomon Loring, 
9 years. 

Elihu Stanley Benton, 
13 years. 

Thelus Todd, 

12 years. 

BildacI Fowler, 
35 years. 

Samuel Atwater, 

18 years. 

Rufus Williams, 

13 years. 

Levi Osborne, 
12 years. 

Josiah Hollister, 

19 years. 

Peter Murdock, 
9 years. 

Amos Hunting, 
12 years. 

Joel Doane, 
12 years. 

Benjamin Swetland, 
19 years. 

Abel Foster, 
23 years. 





NATIONAL SOCIETY 


' DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. vii 




Chapter and Town. 


National 
Number. 


Name, Birth and Deatli Date. 


Name of Pati i"t 

and Ins Age ;it < Ipening 

"t Revolution. 


34 


Susan Carrington Clarke 
Meriden. 


«3I95 


Ann (Tyler) Beaumont 

b. 1803 ; d. 1898. 


John Tyler, 
15 years. 


35 


Susan Carrington Clarke 
Meriden. 


13196 


Maria (Ives) Parker 

b. 1802 ; d. 1897. 


Ichabod Ives, 
16 years. 


36 


Susan Carrington Clarke 
Meriden. 


I3I97 


Elizabeth (McAlpine) Finch. . 
b. 1805 ; d. 1903. 


John McAlpine, 
1 1 years. 


37 


Mary Silliman 


13201 


Caroline (Pinto) Hubbell 

b. 1819. 




Bridgeport. 


15 years. 


38 


Wadsworth 


13205 


Mary (McLean) Wyllys 

b. 1804 ; (1. 1904. 


James McLean, 
20 years. 


Middletown. 


39 


Emma Hart Willard .... 
Berlin. 


13216 


Emily (Savage) Roys 

b. 1811 ; d. 1896. 


Selah Savage, 
16 years. 


40 




13219 


Sarah (Candee) Fairchild . . . 
b. 1807 ; d. 1899. 


Job Candee, 
15 years. 


Seymour. 


4i 


Mary Silliman 


13900 


Augusta (Way) Tuller 

b. 1805 ; d. 1901. 


Isaac Way, 
17 years. 


Bridgeport. 


42 


New London. 


•3917 


Harriet (Forsyth) Smith 

b. 1817. 


Latham Forsyth, 
14 years. 


43 


Anne Wood Elderkin. . . 
Willimantic. 


13924 


Minerva (Grant) Snow 

b. 1817. 


Hamilton Grant, 
16 years. 


44 


Orford Parish 

South Manchester. 


13925 


Mary (Hollister) Pitkin 

b. 1798; d. 1897. 


Josiah Hollister, 
19 years. 


45 


Melicent Porter 

Waterbury. 


14725 


b. 1807; d. 1897. 


Joel Hinman, 
27 years. 


4 6 


Susan Carrington Clarke 
Meriden. 


•4747 


Bedotha P. (Button) Curtis . . 
b. 1810 ; d. 1899. 


Newbury Button, 
9 years. 


47 


Sibbil Dwight Kent 

Suffield. 


15473 


Anna H. (Burnap) Pierce. . . . 
b. 1807 ; d. 1898. 


John Burnap, 
13 ye. us. 


48 


Sibbil Dwight Kent 

Suffield. 


15484 


Mary E. (Burns) Woodworth 
b. 1817 ; d. 1898. 


William Burns, 
13 yeai s. 


49 


Southport. 


16003 


b. 1816 ; d. 1900. 


Benjamin Smith, 
10 years. 


5o 


Susan Carrington Clarke 
Meriden. 


16050 


Nancy (Cloes) Ray 

b. 1796; d. 1898. 


Charles Cloes, 
19 years. 


5i 


Susan Carrington Clarke 
Meriden. 


1 605 1 


Esther (Robbins) Tyler 

b. 1820. 


Ebene/.er Robbins, 
17 years. 



VI 11 



patriots' daughters of Connecticut chapters 





( lhapter and Town. 


National 

Number. 


Name, Birth and Death Date. 


52 


Faith Trumbull 


16568 


Lydia W. 1 Moore) Ilolden . . . 
b. 1818 ; d. 1900. 


Norwich. 


53 


Susan Carrington Clarke 
Mii iden. 


l66lO 


Electa A. (Manchester) Van 
b. 1809 ; (1. 1899. [Vleck 


: l 


Susan Carrington < larke 
Met 


I74I9 


Mabel (Cooley) Hobart 

b. 181 1 ; d. 1904. 


55 


1 ille. 


17428 


b. 1800 ; d. 1897. 


5f> 


M \ stic. 


19044 


Abbyline (Tift) Starr 




b. 1806 ; d. 1901. 


57 


Elizabeth Porter Putnam 
Putnam. 


I9069 


Sarah (Anderson) Exton 

h. 1807 ; d - l8 99- 


58 


Anne 1 In wster Fanning. 
Jewett ( 'it v. 


19644 


Eunice (Palmer) Davis 

b. 1819 ; d. 1900. 




Ruth Hart 

Meriden. 


19660 


Sylvia (Langdon) Dunham . . . 
1). 1800. 


60 


Ruth Wyliys 

1 [artford. 


I967O 


Caroline Foster 




b. 1816. 


61 


I lannah Woodruff 

Southington. 


2OI74 


[ennette (Carter) I Iiocrins. . . . 
b. 1803; d. 1898. 


62 


I lannah Woodruff 

Southington. 


20175 


Nancy (Root) Potter 




b. 1801 ; d. 1899. 


63 


I lannah Woodruff 

Southington. 


2OI76 


Emma (Dutton) ( hiill .... 
b. 1808; d. 1899. 




Ruth Hart 


20195 






M11 


b. 1794; d. 1899. 


65 


Sabra 1 1 umbull 

Rockville. 


20196 


Emeline (Noble) Hollister . . . 
b. 1802 ; d. 1900. 




1 toroth] Ripley 

Southjioi 1. 


20791 


Pamela Hanks 




1). 1804 ; d. 1898. 




Man ( lap Woostei .... 
New 1 la\ en. 


20825 


Phebe (Kimberly) Castle . . . 
b. 1815. 




Clap Wooster. . 

1 laven. 


20828 


Lucretia Kimberly . . 




b. 1821 ; (1. 1900. 




Wadsworth 

Middletown. 


2137" 


Abigail ( Foote) Loomis 

b. 1798; d. 1899. 



Name of Patriot 
and his Age at Opening 

of Revolution. 



David Moore, 
23 years. 

Joseph Manchester, 
15 years. 

George Cooley. 



Seth Strickland, 
17 years. 

Solomon Tift, 

17 years. 

George Anderson, 
24 years. 

Benjamin Palmer, 

18 years. 

Giles Langdon, 
12 years. 

Asa Foster, 

10 years. 

Elihu Carter, 
16 years. 

Josiah Root, 
23 years. 

Timothy Dutton, 

14 years. 

Micah Spooner, 
21 yeai s. 

Gideon Noble, 
12 years. 

Nathan Banks, 

15 years. 

Ezra Kimberly, 

11 years. 

Ezra Kimberly, 
II years. 

Nathaniel Foote, 
33 years. 



NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



Chapter and Town. 


National 
Number. 


Name, Birth and Death Date. 


Name of Patriot 

and his Age at Opening 

of Revolution. 


70 


Green Woods 


21426 


Mary Augusta (Steele) 
b. 1818. 


Cleve- 
land 


John Steel, 


Winsted. 


16 years, 


71 


Dorothy Ripley 

Southpoi t. 


21858 


Julia (Banks) Wilson, 
b. 1807 ; d. 1900. 




Elijah Banks, 
13 years. 


7 2 


Southington. 


21875 


Betsey (Payne) Ives . . 
b. 1803 ; d. 1898. 




Thomas Payne, 
17 years. 


73 


Susan Carrington Clarke 
Meriden. 


21896 


Martha (A bell) Rich., 
b. 1806 ; d. 1902. 




Abel Abell, 
18 years. 



76 

77 
78 

79 
80 
Si 
S2 
S3 
84 
85 
86 

87 



Susan Carrington Clarke 
Meriden. 

Susan Carrington Clarke 
Meriden. 

Susan Carrington Clarke 
Meriden. 

Elizabeth Porter Putnam 
Putnam. 



Faith Trumbull. 
Norwich. 



Ruth Hart 

Meriden. 

Susan Carrington Clarke 
Meriden. 



Ruth Wyllys . . . 
Hartford. 

Sabra Trumbull 
Rockville. 



Hannah Woodruff 
Southington. 



Sarah Ludlow 
Seymour. 



Susan Carrington Clarke 
Meriden. 



Sabra Trumbull 
Rockville. 



Wadsworth. . . 

Middlelown. 



21901 Caroline (Brockway) Pratt... John Brockway, 

b. 1815 ; d. 1900. 18 years. 

21902 Anne D. (Phillips) Lee Thompson Phillips. 

b. 1803; d. 1899. 23 years. 

21905 Phoebe (Rockwell) Gainford. . Jabez Rockwell, 

b. 1805. 14 years. 

22501 Hepzibah M. (Smith) Rhodes. Alexander Smith, 

b. 1810 ; d. 1898. 13 years. 

22504 Caroline (Way) Clarke Elisha Way, 

b. ; d. 1902. 18 years. 

22528 Jerusha L. (Doane) Carter . . . Joel Doane, 

b. 1806; d. 1899. 12 years. 

22545 Maria (Bronson) Bradley Joseph Bronson, 

b. 1807. 19 years. 

2 3345 Statira (Hodge) Beardslec Philo Hod 

b. 1808 ; d. 1899. 19 years. 

23560 Julia (Eddy) Calder Barnard Eddy, 

b. 1828. 13 years. 

23649 Lois ( Johnson) Upson Levi Johnson, 

b. 1817 ; d. 1900. 13 years. 

23676 Augusta (Wooster) Lum Ephraim Wooster, 

b. 1802; d. 1899. XI . VL 'ais. 

23681 Rebecca Osborn Eliada Osborn, 

b. 1801 ; d. 1899. 14 years. 

23682 Anna P. (Knowlton) Bird William Knowlton, 

1). 1812; d. 1901. 8 years. 

23689 Mary J. Deming Edmund Deming, 

b. 1807 ; d. 1899. 16 yen- 



PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



Name of Patriot 



ChaDter and Town National Name, Birth and Death Date. : and his Age at Opening 

' Number. of Revolution. 



90 

94 

95 

"7 
99 



b t a m i o rd . . 
Stamford. 



Wadsworth 

Middletown. 

Elizabeth Clark Hull 
A nsonia. 



Fanny Ledyard .... 
Mystic. 

1 lannah Woodruff . . 
ithington. 

< )i hud Parish 

S. .11 1 h Manchi 



Wadsworth 

M ddletown. 

.\ nnc Brewster Fanning 
[1 vvetl < 'ity. 

Sarah Riggs 1 lumphreys 

I )i 1 ' 

Ruth llait 

Mr 1 iden. 



Norwalk . . 
N 1 walk. 



Elizabeth Porter Putnam 
Putnam. 



Stamford 

Stamford. 

Hannah Woodruff 
Southingti >n. 



24472 
24473 
245«5 
24520 
24521 
25123 
25666 
25936 
25985 
29407 
30603 
36611 
40208 
48316 



Nancy Ann (Gifford) Warren 
!>. 1831. 

Emilia Adaline(Clark)Watrous 
b. 1805 ; d. 1901. 

Minerva (Blake) Howland . . . 
b. 1804 ; d. 1900. 

Mary Ann Wheeler 

1). 1820 ; d. 1903. 



Elisha Gifford, 
27 years. 

David Clark, 
15 years. 

Reuben Blake, 
10 years. 

Isaac Wheeler, Jr., 
7 years. 



Harriet (Reid) Crissey 
b. 1809. 



Lydia (Alexander) Couch. .. . 
b. 1810. 

Laura A. (Markham) Skinner 
b. 1813 ; d. 1902. 

Phebe (Palmer) Ray 

b. 1825. 



Eliza (Wheeler) Bailey. . 
b. 1815 ; d. 1899. 

Mary Ann (Lucas) Dart, 
b. 1811. 



Charlotte (Keeler) Raymond. 
b. 1819. 

1 l.mnah (Green) Robbins . . . 
b. 1808. 



Lucretia (Holly) Town . . 
b. 1810 ; d. 1903. 

Emily (Parmele) Collins' 
1). 1814. 



Asa Reid, 
27 years. 

Thomas Alexander, 
16 years. 

John Markham, 
19 years. 

Benjamin Palmer, 

18 years. 

Hezekiah Wheeler, 
31 years. 

Israel Lucas, 
41 years. 

Justus Keeler, 
25 years. 

Joseph Green, 

19 years. 

John Holly, 
15 years. 

James Parmele, 
18 years. 



'\ Cntra "- 1 ^ tlu- National Society in October, I9 o 4 . A very interesting 

Partlj pu„„,,, Ia te in November from an article on Mrs. Collins which appeared in the 
.'J;'. * bu ' ^ '"" c ° m Pl*ed until December ,, too late to be included in this volume, 

""" " toi and compilers. 



Amid these glories, the heart will thank the prophet \_Zechariah~\ most fir his 
immortal picture of the streets of the New Jerusalem, "OU men and old ■women 
sitting in the sun." 

The poor colony of Jerusalem * * * was a rough, hard society, unblessed by the 
two benedictions of life, childhood and old age. Constant warfare allowed few to 
reach grey hairs. But all this should be changed. Thus saith Jehovah of Hosts: 
"Old men and old women shall yet sit in the streets of Jerusalem each with staff in 
hand for fullness of days: and the streets of the city shall be ftcll of boys and girls 
playing in her streets."— GEORGE ADAM SMITH. 



OFFICIAL SOT VENIR SPOON 

The gift of the National Society D. A. R. 
Real" Daughters 



FOREWORD 




UST a word is needed in volume second of Chapter 
Sketches in explanation of its title, — Patriots' Daughters 
— also called Real Daughters and True Daughters. 
The women whose biographies are here presented arc 
the daughters of men who served in the American 
Revolution and they are honorary members of Connecticut chapters 
and of the National Society, D. A. R. As a testimonial of this 
membership the National Society presents to each Real Daughter, 
all over the country, the highly-prized souvenir gold spoon. 

Early in the organization of the Society, it was found that women 
were still living whose fathers took part in the great struggle for 
American Independence, and it was considered distinction indeed 
for any chapter to have one such woman among its membership. 

As time went by others were found, until now in Connecticut 
chapters alone there are one hundred Patriots' Daughters on the 
rolls. The tabulated list preceding is interesting as showing, by 
birth dates, the extreme age of these women. Several lived to be 
over a century old ; a few were born in the eighteenth century ; the 
majority were born early in the nineteenth century; several lived 
to see the twentieth century and are still with us. All are daughters 
of patriots of the Revolution and thus form the connecting link 
between that eventful period in American history, which our great 
order commemorates, and the present, separated by a century and 
a quarter of time. 

Their fathers were born near the middle of the eighteenth cen- 
tury, and the tabular list also shows the extreme youth of these 
patriots while "in y e service." The reader will not find there- 
fore distinguished records, military or civil, in these sketches, 
such as are found in volume one. Patron Saints. These patriots at 
the opening of the Revolution were mere boys, and the parts they 
played were inconspicuous. But on the stage on which they took 
their parts a drama was enacted of world-wide interest and import, 
and the leading roles were taken by men whose names are immortal. 

As the perspective lengthens, therefore, each man's part in the 
drama, no matter how humble, becomes of more and more import- 
ance, and his connection with the events which secured American 
Independence will have an increasing interest for succeeding gen- 
erations. 

Mary Philotheta Root. 
Bristol, Connectii i i, 
December Third, 

Nineteen hundred and four. 



MRS. SARA T. KINNEY 
State Regent 

3Booft Committee 

Mary Philotheta Root, A.B., Katherine Gaylord Chapter, 

{Chairman) Bristol 

Elizabeth C. Barney Buel, A.B., Mary Floyd Tallmadge Chapter, 



(Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel) 
Mabel Ward Cameron, 

(Mrs. Charles Ernest Cameron) 

Syracuse, X. V. 

Mary Josephine Terry Clark, 

(Mrs. William J. Clark) 

I.VUIA BOLLES NEWCOMB, 
(Mrs. George F. Newcomb) 

Ellen Kilbourne Bishop, 

(Mrs. B. P. Bishop) 

Mary Everest Rockwell, 

(Mrs. Charles Lee Rockwell) 

\ i ice Norton, 

Margaret E. Brown Backus, 

(Mrs. Jabez Backus) 



Ruth Wyllys Chapter, 



Litchfield 



Hartford 



Elizabeth Clark Hull Chapter, 

Ansonia 
Mary Clap Wooster Chapter, 

New Haven 
Faith Trumbull Chapter, 

Norwich 
Susan Carrington Clarke Chapter, 

Meriden 
Emma Hart Willard Chapter, 

Berlin and Kensington 
Norwalk Chapter, 

Norwalk 



finance Committee 
Mrs. Tracy B. Warren {Chairman), Mary Silliman Chapter, Bridgeport 
Mrs. Mary Hepburn-Smith, Freelove Baldwin Stow Chapter, Milford 
Mrs. L. D. A. Alexander, Hannah Benedict Carter Chapter, 

New Canaan 

Officers ot Connecticut Chapters, 2). a. 1R. 

MRS. Tracy B. Warren, Mary Silliman Chapter, 

Vice-State Regent Bridgeport 

Katharine Sedgwick Bacon, Wadsworth Chapter, 

Secretary Middletown 

MRS. < :ii.\i'i es E. ( Jr. >ss, Ruth Wyllys Chapter, 

urer Hartford 



CONTENTS 



MARY CLAP WOOSTER CHAPTER 
New Haven 

Emily Louise Gerry Lydia Bolles Newcomb 3 

Phebe (Kimberly) Castle 
Lucretia Kimberly 



! I 



ABIGAIL PHELPS CHAPTER 
Simsbury 

Rachel Selina (Fowler) Belden Nellie Goodrich Eno 17 

Mahala Terry 20 

ABIGAIL WOLCOTT ELLSWORTH CHAPTER 
Windsor 

Anna Maria Benton Elisabeth Benton Loomis 27 

AXXA WARNER BAILEY CHAPTER 
Groton and Stonington 

Mary (Spicer) Gates ) 

Elizabeth (Spicer) Fox Anne Meech 35 

Rachel (Spicer) Fox ) 

Martha Babcock (Noyes) Noyes Grace Denison Wheeler 42 

Sarah Maria (Davis) Brayton 49 

Lucy (Stanton) Wheeler 51 

Mary Kendrick Williams. 54 

ANNE BREWSTER FANNING CHAPTER 
Jewett < ity 

Eunice (Palmer) Davis \ Marietta S. Geer 

Phoebe (Palmer) Ray \ Ellen Rigby Davis 

AXXE WOOD ELDER A'LX CHAPTER 
Willimantic 

Angelina (Loring) Avery Minnie Pomeroy Cooley 69 

Minerva (Grant) Snow Fanny Vail Snow 73 

DOROTHY RIPLEY CHAPTER 
Southport 

Mary Augusta (Hyde) Sherwood Matilda Meeker Simpson Sherwood 79 
Jane (Smith) Eveleth Mary Elizabeth Eveleth Peel 83 

Julia (Banks) Wilson Rebekah W. P. Bulkley 

Pamela Banks ss 

ELIZABETH PORTER PUTNAM CHAPTER 

Tut nam 

Sarah (Anderson) Exton Helen Manning Kent 93 

Hepzibah Maria (Smith) Rhodes 95 

Hannah (Green) Robbins 96 



59 



XVI CONTENTS. 

PAGE 

ELIZABETH CLARKE HULL CHAPTER 

. I nsonia 

Minerva (Blake) Rowland Mary Josephine Clark 101 

EMMA HART WILLARD CHAPTER 
Berlin and Kensington 

~\ Lydia Sessions Woodworth 
Emily (Savage) Roys y Clara E. Bidwell 105 

J Alice X art on 

FANNY LED J ARD c HAPTER 

Mystic 

Abbyline (Tift) Starr Emma Avery Simmons in 

Nancy Lord (Wheeler) Stanton | rr . , „ 

, T . ,, r > Harriet .1. Stanton 117 

Mary Ann Wheeler ) 

FAITH TRUMBULL CHAPTER 
Norwich 

Caroline (Way) Clark Ellen Kilbourne Bishop 125 

Lydia Wheeler (Moore) Holden " " " 127 

HANNAH WOODRUFF CHAPTER 
Southington 

Nancy (Root) Potter Ellen Tuttle Lewis 133 

Emma (Dutton) Quill " " 137 

Jennette (Carter) Higgins " " 141 

Harriet (Reid) Crissey " " 145 

Betsey (Payne) Ives " " 149 

Lois (Johnson) Upson " " 152 

CATHERINE GAYLORD CHAPTER 

Bristol 

Mary J. Robbins Florence E. D. Muzzy 157 

GREEX WOODS CHAPTER 
Wins 

Mary Augusta (Steele) Cleveland Emily Perkins Roberts 161 

LUCRETIA SHAW CHAPTER 
-\ eio Loudon 

Charlotte Augusta Burbeck Alice Chew 167 

Harriet (Forsyth) Smith " " 169 

Caroline (Holt) Clark " " !73 

Asenath Howe " " 27- 

MARY SILLIMAN CHAPTER 
Bridgeport 

Carolini (Pinto) Hubbell Jeannctte Booth 179 

Abby Holt " " jg-, 

Augusta t Way) Tuller " " T 86' 

MARY WOOSTER CHAPTER 
Danbury 

Lucv .Maria Osborne Helen Meeker 191 






- Alice Barrett Cheney 219 



CONTENTS. XV11 

MELICENT PORTER CHAPTER 
Waterbury 

( Katherine Prichard 

Maria (Hinman) Pulford - Irene II. IT. Codding 197 

(^ Grace S. Pulford 
C Emily Goodrich Smith 

Rhoda Augusta Thomson Minot L. Beardsley 203 

(_ Helen E. Huntington 

NORWALK CHAPTER 
Noruualk 

Juliette Betts Angeline Scott 209 

Charlotte (Keeler) Raymond 213 

ORFORD 1'ARISU CHAPTER 
South Manchester 

Mary (Hollister) Pitkin 

Harriet Hollister 

Lydia (Alexander) Couch 225 

RCTH HART CHAPTER 
Meriden 

( Hannah Keith Peck 
Sylvia (Langdon) Dunham -j Isabella B. Dunham 229 

(_ Julia P. Dunham 

Mary Spooner Mary E. Morgan 232 

Mary (.Todd) Hall Hannah Keith Peck 235 

„ ,„ . T J Edith Love Stockder 

Betsy (Parker) Jeralds < „ , D „, 239 

j Helen R. Merriam 

Mary Ann (Lucas) Dart Hannah Keith Peck 243 

Jerusha L'Hommedieu (Doane) Carter/ 

Jemima Matilda (Doane) Snow i 

Almira (Hunting) Butler 247 

RUTH WYLLYS CHAPTER 
Hartford 

Florilla ( Swetland) Pierce Mabel Ward Cameron 253 

_ _ I Adelaide (Foster) Brainard 

Caroline Foster < .,, rr - ,- . 201 

( Alia U . Foster 

Statira (Hodge) Beardslee Mary Kingsbury Talcott 265 

Tirzah Morgan Parsons 267 

SABRA TRUMBULL CHAPTER 
Rockville 

Julia (Eddy) Calder Jessie Keyes (Anthony) Jackson 270 

( Jessie Carolena (Jackson) 

Emeline (Noble) Hollister MeChristie 277 

( Julia . llice Maxwell 

Anna Parkhurst (Knowlton) Bird Jessie Carolena (Jackson > 

MeChristie 281 

Amy Strickland 2S4 



245 



CONTENTS. 



SARAH LUDLOW CHAPTER 

\ Julia A. Dubois James 

I Ruth San ford 

, Julia A. Dubois James 
Augusta (Wooster) Lum 



Sarah (Candee) Fairchild 



Allida Booth 
SARAH RIGGS HUMPHREYS CHAPTER 

Mary Louise Birdseye 



Eliza (Wheeler) Bailey 

' Evelyn (Bailey) II illiams 

SIBBIL DWIGHT KENT CHAPTER 
Anna Hale (Burnap) Pierce Helen M. King 

Mary Elizabeth (Burns) Woodworth " 

STAMFORD CHAPTER 
Nancy Ann (Gifford) Warren Susan Brooks Miller 

Lu< retia (Holly) Town \ „ , . 0j T , 

/ Sylvia .St. John 

SUSAN CARRINGTON CLARKE CHAPTER 
Meriden 



Anne Duryee (Phillips) Lee 

Bedotha Pierpont (Button) Curtis 

Electa A. (Manchester) Van Vleck 

Almika Foster 

Martha (Abell) Rich 

Esther (Robbins) Tyler 

Abigail Ann (Atwater) Bradley 

M \kia ( Bronson) Bradley 

Phoebe (Rockwell) Gainford 

.Maria (Ives) Parker 

Mabel (Cooley) Hobart 

Elizabeth Lansing (McAlpine) Finch 

Caroline (Brockway) Pratt 

Delia Clark (Murdock) Do\vd 

Rebecca Osborn 

Ann (Tyler) Beaumont 

Nancy (Cloes) Ray 



Mary, Countess Von Waldersee 
Mary Everest Rockwell 



Abigail (Foote) Loom is 
Emilia (Clark) Watrous 
Laura A. (Markham) Skinner 

Mary Jane Deming 
Mary < McLean ) Wyllys 



WADSH '( >R TLI CHAPTER 
Middletown 

J Kate L. Elmer 
) Jane C. Loomis Bevin 
Elizabeth H. Bevin 



j Kate L. Elmer 
Julia M. Woodward 
Kale L. Elmer 



289 
291 

294 



299 
302 

305 
308 



313 
319 

3-21 

323 

3-25 
327 
329 
33* 
335 
337 
338 
339 
341 
342 
343 
344 



347 
353 
363 

365 
367 



Connecticut Chapters not having Patriots' Daughters on 
their Membership Rolls. 



ABI HUMASTON CHAPTER Thomaston. 

DEBORAH AVERY PUTNAM CHAPTER Plainfield. 

ESTHER STANLEY CHAPTER New Britain. 

EUNICE DENNIE BURR CHAPTER Fairfield. 

FREELOVE BALDWIN STOW CHAPTER Milford. 

HANNAH BENEDICT CARTER CHAPTER New Canaan. 

JUDEA CHAPTER Washington. 

( East Hartford and 
MARTHA PITKIN WOLCOTT CHAPTER 

' South Windsor. 

MARY FLOYD TALLMADGE CHAPTER Litchfield. 

NATHAN HALE MEMORIAL CHAPTER East Haddam. 

PUTNAM HILL CHAPTER Gkeenw ich. 

ROGER SHERMAN CHAPTER New Milford. 

SARAH WILLIAMS DANIELSON CHAPTER Killingly. 

TORRINGTON CHAPTER Torrington. 



A nation ivitk our problems needs not only a manhood but a womanhood able to 
see human needs, to feel human aspirations, even in humble beginnings, to do human 
deeds for human kind. 

What an incentive to the study of history is the thought that here one is study- 
ing human life, the struggle of human beings like ourselves for truth and liberty and 
law, \ai;d\ in the pages of American history one sees the working out of Anglo- 
Saxon ideals — the flower of human effort in all the other nations. — MlSS C. E. 
Mason, from The Churchman, August, 1899. 

The sacred tie of family, which {reaching backward and forward) binds the 
genera/ions oj men together, * * * those significant expressions, Forefather, Posterity, 
Native Land, all teach us to honor the past, to study the lessons of experience, * * * 
to sea/! the high counsels of man in his great associations. — EDWARD EVERETT. 

'/'here is a moral and philosophical respect for ancestors which elevates our 
character and improves our heart. Next to a sense of religious duty and moral 
feeling I hardly know what should bear with stronger obligation on a liberal and 
enlightened mind than a consciousness of alliance with excellence which is departed. 

— George Frisbie Hoar. 



flftai^ Clap Mooster Chapter 



NEW HAVEN 



Daughters of patriots 

EMILY LOUISE GERRY ELBRIDGE GERRY 

— Signer Declaration of Independence 



PHEBE (KIMBERLY) CASTLE , EZRA K|MBERLY 

LUCRETIA K1MBERLY \ 




rfoce^z &y«J??Uto^^°7>W>i) d^fu^fJe^ 



EMILY LOUISE GERRY 

ELBRIDGE GERRY 

VICE PRESIDENT, UNITED STATES 1813 




[EN in the course of human events, it becomes necessary 
for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have 
connected them with another, and to assume, among the 
powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to 
which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them," — Thus 
begins "The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States 
of America," in that memorable year, 1776. In their all-embracing 
thought these words reach far back into the past and stretch pro- 
phetically into the future, voicing the never dying longing of 
humanity for liberty and independence. "And for the support of 
this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine 
Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, 
and our sacred honor." Thus ends this remarkable proclamation. 
Among the fifty-six names pledged to "each other" for its support 
is that of Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, father of Emily Louise 
Gerry, the first Regent of Alary Clap Wooster Chapter. 

Elbridge Gerry was born at Marblehead, Mass., July 17, I744> 
soon after the arrival of his father, Thomas Gerry, in America. 
He entered Harvard College while in his fifteenth year and after 
leaving college engaged in commercial life with his father, who was 
a prosperous merchant. His active interest in the affairs of the 
country and his character for probity and judgment gave him promi- 
nence among his fellow citizens, and in May, 1772, he was sent from 
Marblehead as a representative to the General Court of the Province 
of Massachusetts. At that time the spirit of resistance to the oppres- 
sive acts of Ens-land was well aroused and Mr. Gerry was appointed 



4 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

one of the committee of correspondence, whose purpose it was to 
bind the colonies together for united action in the interests of liberty 
and patriotic brotherhood. 

In 1775. when a new provincial Congress assembled at Cam- 
bridge, Mr. Gerry was one of the members, and as the signs of the 
times betokened a struggle with royal authority and prospects of 
actual contest became more imminent, the committee of safety, 
among whom were Mr. Gerry, Colonel Orne and Colonel Hancock, 
became more watchful of the stores of ammunition lest they should 
be destroyed by British troops. On the night before the battle of 
Lexington, April 18, 1775, a detachment of soldiery approached the 
house where Mr. Gerry and Colonel Orne were sleeping, intending 
(as stated by Mr. Austin in his history) "to seize the persons of 
some uf the influential members of the Congress and to hold them 
as hostages for the moderation of their colleagues, or send them 
i'' England for trial as traitors." While the officer was posting his 
men about the house, Mr. Gerry and Colonel Orne divined their 
intention and, familiar with the premises, escaped to a near-by corn 
field, where they remained concealed, while the soldiers searched 
every apartment of the house for "the members of the rebel Con- 
gress/' with unsuccessful result. 

In a letter from Robert Treat Paine to Mr. Gerry, June, 1775, on 
the need of increasing the manufacture of gunpowder, and in which 
he commends "your alertness and perseverance in everything you 
undertake," these are the closing words: "Prav take care of your 
important health, that you may be able to stand stiff as a pillar in 
our new government." Mr. Gerry was chairman of the committee 
to prepare the act to authorize privateering and to establish admiralty 
courts, a law which John Adams pronounced "one of the most 
important measures of the Revolution." He was a delegate to the 
first Continental Congress. February, 1776, and with but few inter- 
vals, was a member of that body until 1785, devoting his talents 
to the higher interests of the new- country to which his life, his 
fortune and sacred honor had been pledged, and in his official duties 
he well fulfilled that pledge by his integrity, his zeal, his fidelity and 
fearless patriotism, and his fair-minded statesmanship. In 1785 he 
retired to private life in Cambridge with his wife, whom he mar- 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 5 

ried in New York while he was in attendance at Congress ; but 
the exigencies of government again called him into public affairs 
to revise the federal constitution for the better preservation of the 
Union, which he had so devotedly striven to organize. Here came 
a difference of opinion and heated discussion in which he was not in 
full agreement with his colleagues, but the opposing measures were 
carried, and when these received the sanction of his country, he 
cheerfully acquiesced in them, saying as a true patriot, that "the 
federal constitution having become the supreme law of the laud, he 
conceived the salvation of the country depended on its being carried 
into effect." 

In 1797, during the presidency of John Adams, the commercial 
relations with France were disturbed and three envoys extraordinary. 
Mr. Gerry, General Pinckney and Mr. Marshall, were sent to effect, 
if possible, a pacific arrangement of the trouble. The French Gov- 
ernment refused to acknowledge them in their official capacity, and 
two of them were desired to leave the country; Mr. Gerry alone 
was permitted to remain, and was invited to resume negotiations, 
but, with the dignity of his country at stake, he refused to do this, 
although remaining to guard, as far as possible, the interests of the 
government. Of this stay, which was censured by some of the 
officials of the time, President Adams says : "He finally saved the 
peace of the nation, for he alone discovered and furnished the evi- 
dence that 'X. Y. and Z.' were employed by Talleyrand, and he 
alone brought home the direct, formal, official assurance upon which 
the subsequent commission proceeded, and peace was made." After 
his return he was made Governor of Massachusetts, 1805, serving 
one year, and again in 1810 for two years. In 1813 he was elected 
Vice President of the United States, James Madison President, and 
although desirous of the quiet of private life, yet the war cloud had 
again arisen over the land, and in his letter accepting the nomina- 
tion, he says: "In a republic, the service of each citizen is due to the 
state, even in profound peace, and much more so when the nation 
stands on the threshold of war." On November 14, 1814, while still 
in the service of his country, fulfilling to the very end that same 
pledge given thirty-eight years before, his life suddenly ended. He 
was buried in Washington, and there a grateful nation has erected 



6 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

a monument to his memory, to mark the spot where he was laid to 
rest. 

The wife of Mr. Gerry was Ann Thompson, daughter of James 
Thompson, one of the oldest families of New York. She was edu- 
eated in Dublin, Ireland, and her two brothers were at the same 
time in Edinburgh University, and afterward entered the British 
Army, but were never sent to America. 




EMILY LOUISE GERRY. 

Mrs. Gerry was a woman of cultivation, a favorite in the social 
circles of New York, of great force of character, gentle and dignified 
and devoted to the careful training of her children and, though an 
invalid, assembled them in her room daily to repeat their prayers and 
to receive from her religious teaching, inspiring them with strong 
affection and reverence for herself. The devoted tenderness of the 
four daughters to her in her old age is still remembered by those 
who knew the family in Xew Haven. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 7 

After 1790 Mr. and Airs. Gerry made their home in Cambridge, 
and in the public career of her husband, Mrs. Gerry sustained the 
demands of official and social life with great acceptance, and to her 
as well as to her illustrious husband the nation owes a debt of grati- 
tude. A delightful glimpse of the family life is revealed in a letter 
from Mr. Gerry to James Monroe on affairs of state, 1787, in which 
Mr. Gerry says : "Your sentiments are perfectly correspondent with 
my own respecting domestic Happiness ; it is the only Happiness in 
this life which, in my opinion is worth a pursuit. Our little pet is 
named Catherine, after its Grand Mamma, and is the object of our 
mutual delight." 

Miss Emily Louise Gerry, the youngest of eleven children of Hon. 
Elbridge Gerry, was born in Cambridge, Mass., in 1802. Here she 
and her sisters, after their primary training, were educated by 
instructors of Harvard College, who came to their father's house as 
tutors. The Misses Gerry entered the social life of Cambridge, and 
at their house the members of the College were entertained once a 
year, while officials of the Government were frequent guests. 

After* the death of Vice President Gerry, it was found that the 
large fortune inherited from his father had been sacrificed for the 
benefit of his country ( for the emoluments of public life were but 
little during this period), and Mrs. Gerry disposed of their home, 
and with her family, removed to Boston, where she resided for sev- 
eral years; afterward the family lived in Xew London, Conn., for 
a short time, and finally, in 1837, made a permanent home in Xew 
Haven, where Miss Gerry lived until her death, December 28, 1804. 
A quiet, beautiful, family life, without ostentation, rare in its har- 
mony, its intelligence and its culture, was passed, until one by one 
mother, brothers and sisters were called from earthl) life, and Emily 
Gerry alone was left, the only surviving daughter in the whole land 
of a signer of the Declaration of Independence. 

She was a woman of extensive reading, familiar with the literature 
of her day, as well as the political affairs of this country, watching 
its growth and progress with lively interest. A severe illness about 
1880 compelled her to relinquish active participation in life's duties, 
yet she kept in close touch with the outside world, through papers 
and periodicals. Her garden was an especial attraction to her, for 



8 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

she was not only a lover of flowers, but a fine botanist, finding great 
pleasure in the study of botany at a time when the science was quite 
in its infancy, and the facilities for its pursuit attended with many 
discouragements. 




THE GERRY HOUSE, CORNER TEMPLE AND WALL STREETS, NEW HAVEN. 
(Taken down in 1897.) 



In her invalid years the culture of flowers was a source of great 
pleasure to mind and body, and in her rolling chair she was taken 
daily into her garden, where every plant seemed a personal friend, 
and the wild plants from the woods responded to her tireless affec- 
tion. Old-fashioned shrubs were her special love, while the lux- 
uriant roses that clambered over the arbors put forth fresh blos- 
soms seemingly at her touch. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 9 

Her loving attachment to the church of her choice, Protestant 
Episcopal, was never-failing, and her gifts for its work, and to the 
benevolent societies of the city, were continued to the close of her 
life in the same generous spirit that characterized all her years. 
Of a quiet and retiring temperament, only those who knew her best, 
knew the truly noble depths of her nature, and those who had the 
privilege of friendship and companionship cannot speak too strongl) 
of her rare qualities of mind and heart. A near neighbor for many 
years writes, "I have a recollection of Miss Gerry, a very refined 
old lady, whom I visited occasiouallv and kept her in mind as one 
to be remembered with flowers." 

Through the long years of paralysis and waning strength, her 
patience, her fortitude, and her sweet resignation showed no signs 
of faltering, and her trusted companion through the years of lone- 
liness and illness will remember the quiet, uncomplaining, invalid 
who passed so gently to the grave. 

Her home in Xew Haven was a fine old-fashioned house, on the 
corner of Temple and Wall streets, and the "Gerry house" was 
regarded with interest by nearly two generations of Xew Haven's 
citizens. "Life's morning march" has reared a modern house upon 
the site, but the memory still lingers around the spot and the voice 
of the past whispers : "That to live in hearts we leave behind is 
not to die." 

Miss Gerry was elected Regent of the Mary Clap Wooster Chap- 
ter in 1893, and the Chapter, though deeply regretting her inability 
to attend the meetings, felt a pardonable pride in having its regency 
represented by the name that so honorably and so closely associated 
it with the very days of the Revolutionary struggle — an association 
without a parallel in the history of the Society of the Daughters of 
the American Revolution. 

At the meeting after the death of Miss Gerry the following reso- 
lution was passed : 

"Resolved: That Mary Clap Wooster Chapter of the Daughters 
of the American Revolution desires to place on record this expres- 
sion of the deep loss sustained by the Chapter in the death of its 
honored Regent, Miss Emily Louise Gerry, whose distinguished 
name will ever remain as a priceless inheritance, and whose gentle 
virtues live as a fragrant memory in the hearts of its members." 



PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



THE ANCESTRAL LINE OF ELBRIDGE GERRY 

FROM "FAMILY MEMORIALS/'' BY EDWARD ELBRIDGE SALISBURY. 

i. John Aldworth — Ellen of Wantage, Co. Berks,; d. 1525. 

2. Robert Aldworth — Alice Presey (or Pressye). 

3. Richard (Sir?) 

4. John — Knight. 

5. Elizabeth Aldworth — Giles Elbridge of Bristol, Co. Gloucester. 

Patentee Pemaquid, 1632; d. 1643-44. 

6. Thomas Elbridge — Rebecca. Lord Proprietor of Pemaquid, abt, 1647. 

7. Elizabeth Elbridge — Samuel Russell. 
S. Rebecca Russell — Enoch Greenleaf. 
o. Elizabeth Greenleaf — Thomas Gerry. 

10. Elbridge Gerry, b. 1744; — Ann Thompson, daughter of James Thompson; 

d. 1814. 

11. Emily Louise Gerry. 

The children of Hon. Elbridge Gerry and Ann his wife, buried in the Old 
Cemetery in New Haven, Conn., were: 

Catharine, m. Hon. James T. Austin; d. March 9, 1850, aged 65 years. 
Tiklmas. d. October 1, 1787, aged 1 year. 

Eliza, m. AJajor David Townsend ; d. May 2, 1882, aged 91 years. 
A xx, d. February 16, 1S80. 
Elbridge, d. May 18, 1867, aged 74. 

Thomas Russell, m. Hannah G. Goelet ; d. Oct. 8, 1848, aged 51. 
Helen Maria, d. August 7, 1864. 

Capt. James Thompson, d. Oct. 1854. (Lost at sea.) 
Eleanor Staxford. 
Emily Louise, d. Dec. 29, 1894. 

The inscription on Mrs. Gerry's monument is: "Born Aug. 12, 1763; died 
March 17, 1849, Ann the widow of Elbridge Gerry — -Vice President of the 
U. S. His name is immortalized on the Declaration of his Country's Inde- 
pendence, hers in the transcendent virtues of domestic life. Both are 
embalmed in the veneration of their children." 

Lydia Bolles Nezvcomb. 

. GEORGE F. NEWCOMB.) 

Indebtedness to Miss Annie C. Townsend, a grand-niece of Miss Gerry, 
and to per-, iiial friends of Miss Gerry, is gratefully acknowledged. 

The portrait and signature of Elbridge Gerry are from an engraving pre- 
sented to the Mary Clap Wooster Chapter by the Misses Townsend. 

The photograph of the Gerry House was loaned by Mrs. A. G. Kingman. 



PHEBE (KIMBERLY) CASTLE 
LUCRETIA KIMBERLY 

EZRA KIMBERLY— PATRIOT 




ZRA KIMBERLY, the father of Phebe and Lucretia 
Kimberly, was a descendant of Thomas Kimberly, 
who came from England to New Haven in 1638, 
^^J and who died in Stratford, Conn., in 1673. 
The line of descent is : 

Thomas. 

Nathaniel, d. in West Haven 1705. 

Nathaniel, m. Hannah Downs; d. in West Haven 1720. 

Nathaniel, m. Hannah Candee ; d. in West Haven 1780. 

Israel, m. Mary Tolles; d. 1768. 

Ezra, b. in West Haven, January 18, 1764; d. in Bethany, August 27, 1844. 

Israel Kimberly lived in the house in West Haven, still standing 
on Main street, and here all his children, of whom Ezra was the 
fifth, were born. Hannah, his youngest daughter, a sister of Ezra, 
was really the originator of the Connecticut Missionary Society, out 
of which sprang the American Home Missionary Society. The fol- 
lowing extract is from an historical discourse by Rev. Erastus 
Colton, delivered in West Haven, April 3, 1857 : 

"A lady of this parish — Miss Hannah Kimberly, having had a 
few dollars presented to her by her brothers, who were seamen, 
gave them into the hands of her pastor, Rev. Mr. Williston. with 
the request that he would apply them for the purpose of supplying 
those who were destitute of the gospel. Mr. Williston soon after 
attending the Association mentioned the gift and the object to his 
brethren, who taking the subject into consideration, formed the 
Society called the Connecticut Missionary Society." 

Miss Hannah Kimberly died December 5. 1854. aged 95 years. 



12 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Ezra Kimberly (born in [764, in West Haven) was very young 
at the time of the Revolutionary War, and his service was princi- 
pally as a substitute in the defense of New Haven at the time of 
Tryon's attack ( 1779). 

When a young man he went to Hamden, near New Haven, where 
he became a clothier or fuller by trade. After a few years he 
removed to a farm in Bethany. Here were born the two daughters 




!£ 



THE HOME OF ISRAEL KIMBERLY AND THE BIRTHPLACE OF EZRA KIMBERLY 
PATRIOT, WEST HAVEN. 



(Now called the Wilmot house.) 



who arc the subject of this sketch, their mother being Mrs. Lucy 
(Ball) Beecher, Air. Kimberly's third wife. They were the young- 
est of the family of fourteen children, of whom only Airs. Castle 
1- ip >u living ( 1904). 

Ezra Kimberly m. first, Phebe Bradley, who died in Alt. Carmel. April 7. 

[805. Their children were: Cynthia, b. 1783; Morris, b. ; 

Roderick, b. 1787; Electa, b. 1789; Mary, b. ; Ezra, b. April 26, 

1703; Sophia, 1). - -; Angeline, b. Feb. 12, 1804. 



DAUGHTERS OF Till-: AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



J 3 



Ezra Kimberly m. second, Phebe Bradley, April 27, 1806: she died March 
1809. The}- had one son, George, b. Feb. 10, 1807. 

Ezra Kimberly m. third. Mrs. Lucy (Ball) Beecher, October 3, 1811; she 
died Dec. 29, 1871, aged ninety-five years. Their children were: 
Dewitt, b. Sept. 29, 1812; Charles, b. Jan. 7. 1814; Phebe, b. Nov. 24, 
1815; Jane, b. May 4, 1817; Lucretia, b. March 16, 1821, d. August 
10, 1900. 




PHEBE (KIMBERLY) CASTLE. 

Mr. Kimberly died in Bethany, August 28, 1844, aged eight) one 

years. 

Airs. Phebe (Kimberly) Castle, the only child now living! [904) of 
Ezra Kimberly, was twenty years old when she became self-support- 
ing with her needle, in the town of Derby. Five years afterward 
she married Dr. Andrew Castle of Woodbridge, whose first wife was 
her older stepsister. A family of eight children, to whom she 



14 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

now became the stepmother, as well as aunt, together with the 
manifold duties of the wife of a country doctor, made Airs. Castle's 
life a very busy one. Two sons were born to her and in this family 
of ten children there were few unoccupied moments for the mother, 
where all the family stores of food for the long New England win- 
ter must be prepared ; the beef corned and smoked, the sausage 
made and the barrel of pork salted, the apples dried, the tallow- 
candles "dipped," and even the crimson dye crushed from the 
poke berries, that the daughters might have bright ribbons for 
their adornment. All the garments, from the caps to the stock- 
ings, must be fashioned and made in the home, while the occa- 
sional visits of the country tailoress made the Sunday suits a 
possibility and pleasure to the proud owners. The traveling cob- 
bler came for several days at a time, at intervals, and not only 
made the shoes, but heeled and soled and patched the foot-gear for 
the whole family. Thus nineteen busy years passed away, when 
Mrs. Castle was left a widow in 1861. She continued in the old 
home for two or three years longer, then joined her sister in 
Westville. a suburb of New Haven. 

During the Civil War two of her older sons enlisted ; one of 
them was in the battle of Fredericksburg, and his name was on 
that ever-silent, mournful list of "missing." For more than thirty 
years the sisters lived a quiet, contented life in the peaceful village 
of Westville, becoming members of Mary Clap W r ooster Chapter 
in 1897. 

Lucretia Kimberly died August 10, 1900, and Mrs. Castle went 
to the home of her son* in Waterbury, Conn., where, in leisure 
and comfort, the years are one by one falling into the past, as the 
stars fade one by one when the morning dawns. 

Lydia Bollcs Nezvcomb. 

(MRS. GEORGE F. NEWCOMB.) 

* Frank E. Castle, M.D. 



Hbujail fl>belps Chapter 

SIMSBURY 

Saugbters of patriots 

ELISHA FOWLER 
RACHEL SELINA ) LIEUTENANT B1LDAD FOWLER 

(FOWLER) BELDEN \ 

JOHN FOWLER 
JOB FOWLER 

CAPTAIN DAVID PHELPS 
MAHALA TERRY SAMUEL TERRY 

TIMOTHY TERRY 




RACHEL SELINA (FOWLER) BELDEN. 



RACHEL SELINA (FOWLER) BELDEN 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILIES 
HOPKINS— FOWLER 




ACHEL SELENA (FOWLER) BELDEN, daughter 
of Bildad and Rachel (Hopkins) Fowler, was horn in 
Suffield August 2$, 1806. Bildad Fowler, son of John 
Juu. and Elizabeth Fowler, was born August 10, 1740, 
in West Springfield, Mass. He enlisted from his native place at 
the age of thirty-six. together with his brothers John and Job 
Fowler, and his uncle Elisha Fowler, who was in the battle of Fort 
Ticonderoga. Bildad Prowler's commission as Lieutenant is still in 
the possession of his descendants, and his musket was preserved 
many years, but was finally stolen. 

His name appears several times in the Massachusetts war records : 
first, as Second Lieutenant in a list of militia officers, chosen by the 
company, April 26, 1776, commissioned in council, April 26, 1776, — 
Captain Nathan Rowley's (4th) company : Colonel John Moseley's 
(3d Hampshire Co.) regiment. 

Second, with the title of Lieutenant on a return [ roll J , Captain 
Reuben Munn's company. Colonel Dike's regiment [which] marched 
to camp August 22, 1776, dated Dorchester. 

Third, with grade of Lieutenant on return [rolls] dated Roxbury, 
September 17, 1776, and Boston, November 26, 1776, Captain 
Reuben Munn's company, Colonel Nicholas Dike's regiment, for 
travel allowance, [his] residence [being given as] West Springfield. 

Fourth, with rank of Second Lieutenant on muster and pay rolls, 
Captain Nathan Rowley's company. Colonel John Moseley's (Hamp- 
shire County) regiment which marched to reinforce Northern army, 
enlisted July 9, 1777, [length of] service one month, nine days. 



1 8 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Fifth, with rank of Lieutenant on muster and pay roll, Captain 
Levi Ely's company, Colonel John Brown's regiment, enlisted June 
30, 1780, discharged October 22, 1780, [length of] service four 
months. Regiment raised by "the resolve of June 22, 1780" for 
three months' service." 




KACHEL ( HOPKINS) FOWLER. 
Wife Lieutenant Bildad Fowler. 

Lieutenant Bildad Fowler married, first, Mercy Sykes, Aug. 10, 
1784, and their children were as follows: 

Bildad, b. April 20, 1785; m. (1) Sarah Norton; (2) Sophronia Metcalf 

Sessions; d. March 15, 1866. 
Julius, b. Nov. 6, 1786; m. Ruth Fuller; d. Dec. 11, 1862. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



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Betsey, b. Aug. 29, 17SS ; m. Joseph Smith ; d. Dec. 30, 1828. 

Mary, b. Dec. 26, 1790; m. (— — ) ; d. Dec. 20, 1875. 

Caroline, b. Oct. 26, 1792; m. William Hills. 

Gamaliel, b. Dec. 9, 1796; m. (1) Sally Noble; (2) Elizabeth Humaston; d. 

July 7, 1865. 
Emilia, b. April 25, 1799; m. Jesse Sykes ; d. Feb. 20, 1877. 

Bildad Fowler's wife, Mercy Sykes Fowler, died April 25, 1800; 
he married for his second wife, Rachel Hopkins, daughter of Jona- 
than Hopkins and Rachel Adams (Sykes) Hopkins. Rachel Hop- 
kins was born in Suffield July 9, 1759, and died there Oct. 5, 1855. 

Lieutenant Fowler died Nov. 19, 1814, and was buried in the old 
cemetery at Suffield. 

Lieutenant Bildad Fowler, by his second wife, Rachel Hopkins, 
had one child, Rachel Selina,* born in Suffield, Aug. 25. 1806, who 
married Horace Beldenf of Simsbury, May 12, 1830. 

The children of Horace and Rachel Selina (Fowler) Belden were 
as follows : 

Fannie, b. May 17. 1831 ; m. Daniel Pomeroy of New York, April 27, 1852. 

Joseph, b. Oct. 29, 1832 ; d. July 16, 1862. 

Anna, b. July 22, 1840 ; m. Rev. Allan McLean, a native of Simsbury ; d. 

April 25, 1875 at Nice, France. 
Horace, b. March 17, 1845. 

Rachel Selina {Fowler) Belden was ninety years of age when 

admitted to the National Society, D. A. R., Jan. 2, 1896. She was 

remarkably well preserved and even to her last days retained much 

personal beauty. Her silvery hair was abundant, her figure erect 

and her manner graceful and dignified. Mrs. Belden died May 5. 

1899, in the ninety-fourth year of her age, and was buried beside her 

husband in the Simsbury Cemetery. 

Nellie Goodrich Eno. 

(AIRS. GEORGE CHESTER ENO.) 

* Mrs. Belden's maternal grandfather, Jonathan Hopkins, also served in the 
Colonial army. 

t Horace Belden was born in Hartford. Conn., Dec. 5, 1794, and died in 
Simsbury, July 24, 1861. 

Authority for above sketch : 
Fowler Family Bible. 
Suffield Town Records. 
West Springfield Records. 
Massachusetts War Archives. 



MAHALA TERRY 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILIES 
PHELPS— TERRY 




AHALA TERRY is a great-granddaughter of Abigail 
Phelps, for whom the Simsbury Chapter is named. Miss 
Terry descends from David, the oldest son of Abigail 
Phelps. She is also a great-great-granddaughter of 
Elizabeth Wadsworth (a sister of Colonel Wadsworth of Charter 
Oak fame), and is related to Oliver Ellsworth. 

Mahala Terry's grandfather, Captain David Phelps, was commis- 
sioned second lieutenant, lieutenant, and captain, and served first 
under Captain Jonah Gillet of Windsor ; second under Colonel 
Fisher Gay of Farmington, General Wadsworth's Brigade ; also in 
the regiment commanded by his brother, Colonel Noah Phelps. 

He saw service at New York, Brooklyn, Long Island and White 
Plains ; and later during the Danbury and New Haven alarms, 
covering a period of three years.* 

Tradition says that her ancestor, the first Terry in this part of 
the country, was a surveyor, and that the surveyors were paid for 
their services, by the government, in land, which each was allowed 
to locate for himself; that Mr. Terry chose a piece of land on the 
east side of Farmington River, in the town of Simsbury, and that 
what is now known as Terry's Plain was so called in his honor. 

Mahala Terry is the daughter of Samuel Terry, who enlisted from 
Simsbury in the army of the Revolution in the year 1776, at the age 
of twenty-three. Fie served as a private in 

Colonel Jonathan Pettibone's regiment 

Lieutenant Job Case's company 

of the 1 8th Connecticut Militia. 

This company was stationed at New York from 

August 24th until September 25th, 1776. 

* A more detailed account of Captain David Phelps' service is given in 
Patron Saints, pp. 245, 246. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 21 

Samuel Terry also served ( with his brother Timothy Terry) in a 
company commanded by Captain Job Case which was engaged in 
the transportation of cannon balls from the iron works at Salis- 




.M AH ALA TERRY. 



bury, Conn., to Boston for the use of the army. One of the balls 
fell from a load near Mr. Terry's home, and is still in the possession 
of his descendants. 

Miss Mahala Terry relates the following incident as told her by 
her father, which occurred during' the disastrous retreat from New 
York. The command having been given, "every man for himself," 



2 2 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

the soldiers fled in great confusion.* After running some distance 
Mr. Terry came to a spring- of water beside which several soldiers 
were King dead, having drunk the ice cold water while overheated 
from running. A woman from a house near by came bringing a 
jug of rum for him to drink before taking the water, and having 
done so he went safely on his journey. (History does not record 
whether or no he ventured to take any of the water!) 

Mr. Terry was a great admirer of Washington and was fond of 
telling the following story, which is one of many illustrating the 
spirit of the great General. Samuel Terry and other soldiers were 
repairing the highway, and left one of their implements in the road. 
An officer passing severely reprimanded the men for obstructing the 
road. Washington soon appeared, dismounted, removed the obstruc- 
tion and rode along on his way. 

Samuel Terry, son of John Terry and Martha Gridley Terry, his 
wife, was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, February 28th, 1753, and 
died July 28th, 1838. He was one of a family of nine children. 
He married June 15th, 1778, Elizabeth Phelps, daughter of Captain 
David Phelps of Simsbury and of Abigail Griswold of Windsor, his 
wife. Elizabeth Phelps was born May 13th, 1759, and died May 
9th, 1833. The children of Samuel and Elizabeth (Phelps) Terry 
were as follows : 

Samuel, b. April 6th, 1779; d. January 8th, 1784. 

Ira, b. February 13th, 1781 ; d. April 22d, 1873. 

Elizabeth, b. February 2d, 1784; d. March 15th, 1S04. 

Samuel, b. March 25th, 1787; d. May 20th, 1831. 

Laura, b. May 26th, 1790; d. October 24th, 1883. 

Orrin, b. April 12th, 1794; m. Sarah Marilla Mills; d. February 6th, 1851. 

Roswell, b. February 1st, 1796; m. Emily Gillet of Granby; d. May 1st, 1872. 

Electa, b. January 10th, 1799; m. Shubal Hoskins ; d. October 4th, 1S45. 

Mahala, b. July 4th, 1802; d. December 29th, 1902. 

Miss Mahala Terry in early life taught school for fourteen suc- 
cessive years. She was ninety-four years of age when admitted to 

*John Fi.skc described the event as follows: "After the loss of Brooklyn 
Heights, Washington and General Greene were aware that the city [New 
York] could not he held." * * "Washington went with two New England 
brigades to hinder the landing of the enemy until Putnam should have time 
to evacuate the city. To Washington's wrath and disgust these men were 
seized with a panic and suddenly turned and tied without firm"- a shot." 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 23 

the National Society, May 2, 1897, and lived in the Terry home- 
stead until her death. On July 4th, 1902, Miss Terry was one hun- 
dred years old, and on that day received visits from the members 
of the Abigail Phelps Chapter. They carried various gifts, includ- 
ing one hundred roses. Miss Terry was remarkably cheerful, and 
told many stories of former days, among them one relating to her 
father. He was once engaged in that frolic of ye olden time known 
as "Stealing the Bride," and having the fleetest horse in the party, 
he succeeded in carrying off the bride! 

Miss Terrv had a good memory and the ability to give a keen and 
witty answer when occasion required. Although so very aged she 
always showed an independent spirit, and never allowed anyone to 
perform a service for her if able to do it for herself. Mahala Terry 
died December 29, 1902. 

Nellie Goodrich Eno. 

IMKS. GEORGE (.HESTER ENO.) 

Authority for above sketch : 
Terry Family Bible. 
Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution. 




REVOLUTIONARY CANNON BALL. 
(Property of Mrs. Samuel Terry, Simsbury.) 



THE FOREFATHER 

Here at the country inn 

1 lie in my quiet bed, 

And the ardent onrush of armies 

Throbs and throbs in my head. 

\\ hy in this cairn, sweet place 
Where only silence is heard, 
Am I 'ware of the crash of conflict — 
Is my blood to battle stirred? 
* * * * 

Mayhap in the long ago, 
My forefather grim and stark 
Stood in some hell of carnage 
Faced foe-ward, fell in the dark; 

I cannot rightly tell : 
I lie from all stress apart, 
And the ardent onrush of armies 
Surges hot through my heart. 

Richard Burton. 
From The New England Magazine. 



Hbtoatl Molcott EUswortb Cbaptcv 



WINDSOR 



©aiuibtev of patriot 

NATHANIEL STANLEY 
ANNA MARIA BENTON ELIHU STANLEY BENTON 




ANNA MARIA BENTON. 



ANNA MARIA BENTON 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILIES 
STANLEY— BENTON 




NNA MARIA BENTON, probably the oldest of Con- 
necticut Daughters of Revolutionary soldiers, was born 
in Windsor, April 15th, 1797. Her father was Elibu 
Stanley Benton of Windsor. Her mother was Anna 
(Filley) Benton, also of Windsor. Elihu Stanley Benton was only 
thirteen years old when the war opened, but he is on record as having 
served in the Revolutionary army. Llis mother was Anna (Stanley) 
Benton, daughter of Nathaniel Stanley, who promptly responded to 
his country's call in her hour of peril, as a member of the "Lexington 
Alarm" company (April, 1775). 

Nathaniel Stanley also took part in the Ticonderoga expedition, 
responding to the Connecticut Legislature's first call for troops, in 
April-May, 1775 ; he enlisted for eight months' service in 

Colonel Samuel Spencer's ) R e< ri m ent 
Colonel Samuel Wyllys' ' 

Lieutenant-Colonel and Captain 
Roger Enos' Company. 

This regiment was adopted as Continental in July, 1775. 

The Stanley family were among the founders oi the Connecticut 
colon}- and are identified with its history from the beginning. 

Thomas Stanley's (Standly) name is on the list of earliest land 
owners in Hartford (1639). 

His son, Nathaniel Stanley, married (1659) Sarah Boozey. daugh- 
ter of James Boozey of Wethersrield. They lived in Hartford. 



28 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

I 1 1 was an early magistrate of Connecticut, and was one of the men* 
who, led by Captain James Wadsworth and John Talcott, concealed 
the charter of [660 in the now famous oak (1687). 

Nathaniel Stanley 2d married (1706) Anna Whiting, daughter 
of Joseph Whiting and granddaughter of Colonel John Allyn. 

Nathaniel Stanley 3d, the Patriot, whose response to the Lexing- 
ton Alarm and whose services at Ticonderoga are above mentioned, 
was born in 1709, graduated at Yale College in 1726, and married 
Alary the daughter of Eliakim Marshall of Windsor and a grand- 
daughter of Governor Leete of Guilford. 

Their daughter, Anna Stanley, married Thomas Benton of Wind- 
sor; their son, Elihu Stanley Benton, the Patriot, born December 
8. 1762 in Windsor, Conn., died December 13, 1829, in Windsor, 
Conn., married Anna Filley, of Windsor, Conn. Their children 
were : 

Elizabeth, b. 1787; m. Heber Keep, Feb. 15, 1810, Longmeadow, Mass.; 

d. 1843 : five cbildren. 
Fanny, 1>. Feb. 26, 1789; m. Samuel Bestor of Enfield, Conn., Nov. 23, 1814; 

d. Jan. 2, 1817. 
William Sidney, b. 1790; m. Nov. 4, 1821, Cbloe Loomis, Windsor; d. 

1865 ; no children. 
Henry, b. 1791 ; m. Lucy Ann Starr of New London, May 1827; d. 1866. 
Theodore Stanley, b. 1794; resided in New York; m. Oct. 2, 1821, Eliza 

Morgan of New York (a descendant of General Daniel Morgan) ; 

d. 1K37: seven children. 
Elizur, b. 1795; d. 1814. 
Anna Maria, b. April 15, 1797; d. May 13, 1898. 

Elihu Stanley Benton lived in Windsor in a house (now torn 
down ) which is described by onef of his granddaughters as a great 
rambling house which seemed like an inn of ye olden time, when 
coaches on the highway from Hartford to Springfield halted for 
refreshment for man and beast. 

His daughter, the subject of this sketch, remembered a story her 
father used to tell in the first quarter of the last century, of spies 

* See "The Charter of 1660." Published by Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 
Hartford, 1900. 

fMrs. Horace King, Enfield, Conn. (Anna E. (Benton) King, daughter of 
Thei uli ire Stanley Benti m. 1 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 29 

that were concealed during the Revolution under the old bridge 
which crossed the Farmington river in Windsor. 

Miss Benton lived most of her life in Windsor. At the age of 
seven, she learned to use the wheel, — but not the wheel of to-day. 
Young girls then spent their time spinning flax and wool, bleaching 
the long strips of linen, sprinkling and turning them on the grass, — 
the work of the younger maidens in the household. Later she 
learned to weave linen, cotton, and wool. She was interested in the 
culture of the silkworm, and raised silk worms, spinning the silk 
and selling it to the milliners, who were good customers, — the shirred 
silk bonnets being in style at that time. 

Aliss Benton attended school at the Windsor Academy. Her 
heart's desire was to be a missionary, and to prepare for the work, 
she applied herself closely to regular studies during the day, and 
spent her evenings with her brother studying Latin. At the time 
Mr. Bingham went to the Sandwich Islands, it made a great impres- 
sion upon her mind. But a nervous affection of the eyes, causing 
much pain and suffering, developed, and she was obliged to lav 
aside all study and reading for nearly seven years. But these were 
not years of idleness. She was active in church and Sunday school 
work, soliciting for missionary and benevolent societies. Thus 
instead of being a foreign missionary, she became truly a home 
missionary. 

At the age of eighteen, she united with the Congregational Church, 
and her record of attendance for eighty-two years was unbroken, 
except for a short time spent with her sister. Elizabeth,* in Long- 
meadow, Mass. Miss Benton was one of the first to be interested 
in a Sunday school, getting herself the names of those who were 
willing to join the school, which was organized in 1819, and of 
which she was one of the teachers for several years. She remained 
a member of the Sunday school through the '"Home Department" as 
long as she lived. 

On April 15th, 1897, she celebrated her one hundredth birthday. 
The day was a memorable one. Her home was beautifully decorated 
by kind neighbors and friends with flowers and potted plants. She 
received her guests to the number of seventy-five, including the 

* Mrs. Heber Keep. 



30 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

members of the Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth Chapter, in her usual 
quiet and happy manner. Her heart was still young, for she always 
kept in touch with the present. Thus with failing senses but with 
no word of complaint, she waited in the lengthening shadows for 
the call of her Master, often saying, "Surely goodness and mercy 
have followed me all the days of my life." 

.Miss Benton lived to see another birthday. Then her strength 
began to fail, although her mind and memory remained clear. One 
morning, after a restless night, she conversed intelligently with her 
grand niece, with whom she lived, but suddenly, without pain or 
struggle, she peacefully passed away. 

Elizabeth Benton Looinis. 

(MRS. W. \V. LOI IMIS. I 



The following lines were written (about 1804) by Miss Benton's 
sister Elizabeth,* then a young girl of seventeen. 

Miss Anna Maria Benton, at the age of one hundred years and 
eight months, repeated the same from memory, — the following being 
a copy as taken down verbatim by a grand niece : 

There is a gentleman in this town ( Windsor) 

Of great credit and renown, 

He has daughters one, two, three, 

And I'll describe one unto thee ; 

She is handsome, straight and pretty, 

Also neat and very witty. 

Her person has so fine a grace 
That no one could supply her place. 
Unless Diana should appear 
With her attendants far and near : 
Look ye : kind and gentle swains, 
Perhaps this lady's love you'll gain. 
Make no delay; I think not best 
To let such weighty matters rest ! 
Perhaps some one has stepped before 
And gently knocked at beauty's door ; 

:: Mrs. Heber Keep of Longmeadow. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 31 

Methinks I softly hear some say 

Young Henry's* stole her heart away. 

It's now too late : too late to grieve. 

Go, gentle swains, and take your leave. 

Whilst on the ocean he is tossed, 

In melancholy she is lost. 

I wish he would some harbor make. 

His cargo sell and wages take. 

And when the happy knot is tied, 

And Lucyf is his charming bride, 

I will come and serve the wine. 

And we will have a jolly time. 

1 wish you would not show, dear friend. 

These simple lines that I do send. 

My composition is very small. 

And as for art, I have none at all. 

* Henry Talcott was lost at sea, and never came back to his fair Lucy. 
t Lucy Wolcott. 

Acknowledgments are due to Mrs. Horace King (Anna E. Benton King) 
of Enfield, Conn., for important data used in this sketch. 



"Groton will ever be memorable as the theater of the most important and 
interesting military transactions which have taken place in the state. In the 
early settlement of the country the fate of Connecticut was decided by the 
sword on Peqnot Hill. ... In the war of the Revolution another of 'the 
high places' of Groton became an Aceldama and the flower of her sons were 
sacrificed to the vengeance of an infuriated enemy." 

— Connecticut Historical Collections. 
John Warner Barber. 



Hrma Mavner Bailey Chapter 



GROTON AND STONINGTON 



Daughters 



MARY (SPICER) GATES 
ELIZABETH (SPICER) FOX 
RACHEL (SPICER^ PACKER i 



of 



patriots 

CAPTAIN OLIVER SPICER 
CAPTAIN ABEL SPICER 

ABEL SPICER 



COLONEL JOSEPH NOYES 
COLONEL THOMAS NOYES 
JOSEPH NOYES 
MARTHA BABCOCK (NOYES) NOYES SANFORD NOYES 



SARAH MARIA (DAVIS^ BRAYTON 



SAMUEL DAVIS 
JOSHUA DAVIS 
DAVID DAVIS 
JONATHAN DAVIS 



LUCY STANTON) WHEELER 



DANIEL STANTON 
EDWARD STANTON 



MARY KENDRICK WILLIAMS 



RUFUS WILLIAMS 




ELIZABETH (SPICEr) FOX 




RACHEL (SPICER) PACKER 



MARY (SPICER) GATES 
ELIZABETH (SPICER) FOX 
RACHEL (SPICER) PACKER 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILY— SPICER 




BEL SPICER, son of John and • Mercy (Chapman) 
Spicer, was born at Groton, Conn., June i, 1760. 
When sixteen years of age he was drafted for service in 
the Revolutionary army by William Huntington, Cap- 
tain of militia in Lebanon, Conn. Upon the payment of ten dollars, 
a substitute was found, but at the age of eighteen, being again 
drafted, he entered the service. 

In a copy of a document/' which was sent to Washington, D. C, 
in 1833, with his application for a pension, he describes his various 
services as follows : 

"Not many months after Captain Huntington drafted me again 
for another short tour. In this town there was generally drafted 
one from each company. We were drafted to go to Rhode Island, 
and ordered to meet Captain Whitmore of Mansfield at Windham. 
From there we went to Plainfield, thence to Providence, slowly. 
We began to hear the cannons roar, and to see the smoke rise. 
We passed on to Warwick, W r arren, and Bristol, and came almost to 
the ferry,f and behold the soldiers were coming off the island,! and 
the battle was over. We then marched back to Providence, there 
pitched our tents, worked a little on the fortifications, and in about 
two or three weeks were discharged." 

The historical account of the siege of Newport when compared 
with Abel Spicer's account of his Rhode Island tour leads one to 
believe that he witnessed the retreat of the American Army after 

* See Illustration next two pages. f Bristol ferry. t Newport. 



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the failure of the operations against Newport, the 29th of August, 

His daughter, Elizabeth (Spicer) Fox, says that her father 
longed to see a battle and was greatly disappointed when he saw 
the retreat of the soldiers. 

In 1779 he served on board of the Continental frigate Confederacy. 
Captain Seth Hardin. His account of this follows : 

"I voluntarily engaged to go on board an armed Bow-galley with 
twenty-seven or twenty-eight men for a cruise ; no time agreed 
on ; but we were out, I believe, about three weeks, and we sailed, 
and rowed, and dodged about among King George's vessels on the 
South side of Long Island until we made prizes of two vessels, 
which had on board twenty-two men, and they fought us under 
British colors about, I think, three-quarters of an hour." 

On July 23, [780, he enlisted for six months in Colonel Samuel 
Blatchley Webb's regiment at West Point. He writes : 

"In 1780 I 'listed for six months and went with other soldiers from 
Lebanon to Bolton, Hartford, and Danbury. There we were exam- 
ined and a number of questions asked us, such as 'Did you 'list'?, 
'were you drafted or were you hired?', 'How much do you have 
for doing this tour?', 'What do you have for pay, wheat, corn, or 
money?" As to what I had I never received but the ten dollars 
bounty from the selectmen of the town of Lebanon, paid me by the 
hand of Captain Huntington after I returned. The old soldiers 
called us 'Those wheat and corn men.' We marched from Danbury 
to join the Continental army that was not far from the place where 
Major Andre, the spy, was hanged, and from nigh that place I, 
with others, was sent to West Point. There I stayed awhile and 
assisted in getting the chain ashore that stretched across the North 
River to prevent the British from going up the river. We were 
then sent across the river into the woodland to help the old soldiers 
build huts to live in through the winter. We, the six-months men, 
so-called, were told by our officers that as soon as the huts were 
finished we should be discharged and we soon accomplished the 
work. On the 14th day of December, 1780, after having faithfully 
served my time out I was discharged from the service. Our cap- 
tain, it was said by the soldiers, was a prisoner in possession of the 
enemy and likewise the chief commander of the regiment." 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 39 

Abel Spicer failed to obtain the pension for which he applied, as 
his time of service was found to lack some days of the time required 
to entitle him to one. He died July 7, 1847. 

His uncles, Oliver and Abel Spicer, served during the Revolu- 
tionary War. Captain Oliver Spicer* was captain in 1776 in the 
regiment of Colonel Smith, serving in the campaign around New 
York.f In one of the New London County books in the town 
clerk's office at Groton is the record, Dec. 31, 1777, that Captain 
Oliver Spicer was one of the "Committee appointed to take into 
consideration the articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union 
recommended by the Congress of the Thirteen United American 
States." 

In 1780 another minute containing his name is as follows: 
"appointed Committee to adopt some plan in order to engage the 
quota of men to be furnished by the town of Groton to send to the 
Continental Army." Two other entries of 1781 refer to him. 

Another uncle, Abel Spicer,| was a Captain§ 

Sixth Regiment, Colonel Samuel Holden Parsons 

Abel Spicer (Groton), Captain Tenth Company. 

"Raised in the first call for troops in April-May, 1775." 

Fourth Battalion, Wads worth's Brigade, 1776 

Colonel Samuel Selden, Hadlyme 
Captain Abel Spicer (Groton) Fifth Company. 

"Served in New York and Long Island." "Caught in the retreat 
and panic of September 15, when the city was abandoned." He 
also served on various committees || with his brother Oliver. 

Three of Abel Spicer's daughters are honorary members of the 
Anna Warner Bailey Chapter. They are talented women, and 
highly esteemed in the communities where they live. Mary Spicer, 

* Born May 28, 1726; m. Alathea Allen, Aug. 17, 1749; d. Feb. 11. [804. 
t See Pension Office Records, and Conn. Men of the War of the American 
Revolution. 
t Born March 9, 1736; married Sarah Allyn, January II, 1762; died May 

3, 1784. 

§ Connecticut Men of the American Revolution. 
|| See County Records. 



4° 



PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



born May 6, 1813; married Xoah Gates, December 10, 1848. Her 
home is in Poquetannock, Conn. 

Elizabeth Spicer was born August 6, 1820, and married Findley 
Morse Fox, February 17, 1846. They had one child, Justina, born 
October 1, 1847, who died, unmarried, January 13, 1887. Mrs. 
Fox lives in South Woodstock, Conn. 




HORN SNUFF BOX ORNAMENTED IN GOLD RELIEF. 

(This ancient Horn Box, owned by Mrs. Mary (Spicer) Gates, is known to have been in the 
Abel Spicer family over 200 years, and was presented by Mrs. Gates to the Anna Warner Bailey 
Chapter. \ 

Rachel Spicer was born September n, 1822; married Nelson G. 
Packer July 1, 1875, and resides in Preston, Conn. She recalls 
that when she was young she often heard her father talk of being 
in the war and of seeing George Washington. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 41 



ABEL SPICER'S ANCESTRY 

The Spicers came from Normandy to England with William the 
Conqueror. The first ancestor of Abel Spicer in New England was 

Peter, who came from Virginia to Groton, Connecticut, in 1666. He married 
Mary Busicott. 

Edward Spicer married Katherine Stone. 

John Spicer married Mary, dau. Robert and Martha (Tyler) Geer. 

John Spicer, Jr., married Mercy, dau. William and Mercy (Stoddard) Chap- 
man. 

Abel Spicer married Sarah Park, daughter of Abijah and Elizabeth (Morse) 
Park, November 13, 1788; she died July 27, 1815. He married Elizabeth 
Morse April 28, 1816; she died July 27, 1817. On March 18, 1818, he 
married for his third wife Sarah, daughter of Peleg and Mary Rose; 
she died May 5, 1874. 

Children of Abel Spicer by his first wife Sarah ( Park) Spicer: 

Sarah, b. Oct. 18, 1789; m. Cyrus Newton, Dec. I, 1814; d. Aug. 25, 1861. 
Peter, b. Dec. 7, 1791 ; m. Mary Park, Oct. 15, 1815; d. June 24, 1873. 
Park, b. Feb. 23, 1794; m. Adah Griswold, Oct. 30, 1823; d. Nov. 8, 1879. 
Abel Chapman, b. July 29, 1796; m. Lucy Babcock, Dec. 2^, 1825; d. Feb. 

24, 1859. 
Isaac, b. Jan. 7, 1799; m. Francina Chapman. Feb. 25, 1827: d. May 30, 1856. 
Daniel, b. Sept. 23, 180 1 ; m. Phoebe Butts, Dec. 18. 1S27; d. July 5, 1873. 
Hannah, b. Oct. 12, 1804; m. Herbert Spicer, Feb. 7, 1836; d. Sept. 12. 1859. 
Eunice, b. Sept. 20, 1808; m. John D. Kingsley, April 23, 1843; d. — 
Mary, b. May 6, 1813 ; m. Noah Gates, Dec. 10, 1848. 

Child by second wife, Elizabeth (Morse) Spicer: 
Infant Son, b. and d. July 22, 1817. 

Children by third wife, Sarah (Rose) Spicer : 

Elizabeth, b. Aug. 6, 1820; m. Findley Morse Fox. Feb. 17. 1846. 
Rachel, b. Sept. 11, 1822; m. Nelson G. Packer, July 1. [875. 

Anne Meech. 

Authorities: Connecticut Men of the American Revolution, pp. 102. 2^2, 601. 
Abel Spicer' s manuscript in the possession of his daughter. Mrs. 
Elizabeth Fox. 



MARTHA BABCOCK (NOYES) NOYES 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILY— NOYES 




HE family of Martha Babcock (Noyes) Noyes served well 
the patriot cause, and their genealogy shows distinction 
in arms and statesmanship and letters. 




MARTHA BABCOCK (NOYES) NOYES. 

Rev. William Noyes, Rector diocese of Salisbury, England, m. Anne Parker 

1595- 

James Noyes of Newbury, Mass., m. Sarah, dau. Joseph Brown of South- 
ampton, Eng. in 1634. 

Rev. James Noyes, first settled minister in Stonington, and a founder of Yale 
College, m. Dorothy Stanton, 1674. 

Thomas Noyes, Captain Stonington Train Band 1723, m. Elizabeth Sanford 
(I/05). 
Elizabeth Sanford* was the daughter of Governor Peleg Sanford of Rhode 
Island, and the granddaughter of Governor William Coddington of 
Rhode Island ; and the great-granddaughter of Anne Hutchinson of 
the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who was banished from the Colony in 
1637. Anne Hutchinson's mother was a cousin of the poet Dryden. 
* Elizabeth Sanford's sister Bridget m. Isaac Wheeler. See sketch of Nancy 

(Wheeler) Stanton— Mary Ann Wheeler, Fanny Ledyard Chapter. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION - . 



43 



I In Expectation 

of A joyful Resurreciion 

to Eternal Life 
(Here lyeth Interred jf Boay 
of the Revti Mrjames Noyes 

Aged so years. 
Who after A Faithful Serving 
pf the Church of Christ 
In this Place, 
Tor more theirs^ years 
deceased pec^.sourjfc,- 1 

J Ma/efty Meeknefs %c Humili\v 
] Here Meet in one, ruithgreaiift Chanty 



Colonel Joseph Noycs, m. Barbara (dau. James and Mary (Barker) Wells) 

0753). 
Sanford Noyes, m. Martha (dau. Hezekiah and Martha (Hoxsie) Babcock) 

(1800). 
Martha Babcock Noyes, m. George 
W. Noyes. 



Colonel Joseph Xoyes was the 
youngest child of Captain 
Thomas and Elizabeth (Sanford.) 
Noyes, who were married in 
1705. He settled at Westerly, 
Rhode Island, owning - Noyes 
Point, named for him, and other 
tracts of land. He married Bar- 
bara Wells, July 31, 1753. 

Their children were : 

(Colonel) Thomas, b. Oct. 3, 1754; 

m. Lydia Rogers; d. Sept. 20, 

1819. 
Joseph, b. May 9, 1758; m. Elizabeth 

Babcock, July 13, 1799: d. April 

23, 1847- 

Sanford, b. Jan. 18, 1761 ; m. Martha 
Babcock, daughter of Hezekiah 
and Martha (Hoxsie) Babcock, 
Feb. 2, 1800; d. August 8, 1843. 

Mary, b. Oct. 9, 1763 ; m. Thomas 
Noyes, 1799 ; d. 1852. 

(Dr.) James, b. Feb. 8. 1768; m. 1st, 
Fanny Wells ; 2d, Nancy Wells ; 
3d, Rebecca Clarke; d. Nov. 6, 
1856. 

Elizabeth, b. July 31, 1770; d. Sept. 
13, 1845 ; unmarried. 

Joshua, b. Dec. 5, 1772; m. Grace 
Noyes, daughter of Peleg Noyes, 
May 6, 1810; d. . 

Barker, b. March 3, 1775: m. Mar- 
garet Champlin. 



TOMB-STONE OF THE REV. JAMES 
NOYES (d. 1719), 

(Showing the Noyes Coat-of-Arms.) < aptain 
Thomas Noycs (son Rev. James Noyes) had 
the stone made in England, l! is a large flat- 
stone resting mi four stone posts about a foot 
high over the grave in Wequotiquod burial 
ground, near Stonington borough. 



44 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Colonel [bseph Noyes and his three sons, Thomas,* Joseph and 
San ford, served during the Revolutionary War. He was Colonel 
of the First Rhode Island and Kent County regiment, was in 
the battle of Rhode Island, and received honorable mention for 
bravery. In December, 1776, his regiment defended Tower Hill. 
He was a member of the House of Representatives of Rhode Island 
in 1776, and voted for the "Act to repeal an Act for the mainte- 
nance of the Kingf's Authoritv in Rhode Island." This occurred 



THOMAS FIT CH, % 

Governor and Commander in Chief of His 

Majcfty's Colony of Connecticut in New- 
England. "^ 

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COMMISSION TO JAMES NOYES AS LIEUTENANT (DATED 1760). 

about four months before the signing of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence in Philadelphia. He was deputy from Westerly to the 
General Assembly in 1776, 1780 and from 1782 to 1787. Colonel 
Joseph Noyes died March 13, 1802. 

Sanford Noyes was born at Westerly, Rhode Island, January 18, 
1761. Though only fifteen years old when war was declared, he 

* Thomas, son of Colonel Joseph Noyes, was Lieutenant of the nth Co., 
Second Regiment, Rhode Island Brigade, Continental Army. He was com- 
missioned August 24, 1776, served in the battles of Long Island, White Plains, 
I renton and Valley Forge, tie was also First Lieutenant. Rhode Island State 
Artillery, commissioned .May 29, 1777. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 45 

was employed to carry despatches between New London and New- 
port, and was probably in the saddle for long periods of time. 

He was. however, a regularly enlisted and trained soldier, :;: and 
the fact that his father was in command in this vicinity probably 
accounts for his being kept out of actnal warfare. 

He was married February 2, 1800, to Martha Babcock, who was 
born at Hopkinton, Rhode Island, Angnst 30, 1781. 

There is no picture of him extant. As described by his daughter, 
he was above the medium height, slight of figure, of fair com- 
plexion, with brown hair and eyes. 

Colonel Joseph Xoyes' brother, Captain James Xoyes, held office 
under the colonial government. His two commissions as lieutenant 
and captain are dated 1760 and 1762. 

Captain James Noyes' son, Thomas Xoyes. was commissioned a 
lieutenant in 1784 and a captain in 1787. These four commissions, 
the former granted by the Connecticut colony, and the latter by the 
State of Connecticut, are in the possession of Martha Babcock 
(Noyes) Noyes's daughter. 

The children of Sanford Noyes and Martha Babcock Xoyes were: 

Ann Maria, b. Jan. 6, 1801; m. Capt. Robert Brown; d. Nov. 28, 1889. 
Sanford, b. Jan. 9, 1802; m. Eunice Witter, Dec. 19, 1830; d. Sept. 28, 1884. 
Lvdia Rogers., b. Sept. 1, 1804; m. Dr. Josepb Denison Kenyon ; d. March 

26, 1895. 
Martha Babcock, b. March 11, 1806; m. George Washington Noyes, son of 

Thomas and Mary Noyes, July 7, 1845 '• d. July 8, 1900. 
Susan, b. Dec. 6, 1808; m. Peleg Kenyon; d. Jan. 1. 1SS7. 
Like Babcock, b. April 20, 1810; m. Mary Ann Noyes; d. Feb. 18, 1899. 
Gideon Hoxsev, b. Oct. 4, 1814; m. Lois Bradford Dickins, May 14. 1855: 

d. May 14, 1895. 
Eliza, twin of above, m. Albert Witter; d. June 3. 1872. 

Martha Babcock Noyes, fourth child of Sanford and .Martha 
Noyes, was born in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, March li, 1806. She 
married her first cousin. George Washington Xoyes. July 7, 1845. 
Their only child Mary married Orson C. Rogers in 1882. Mrs. 
Xoyes' home was in Westerly, on the Connecticut side, where she 
died in 1900, aged ninety-four years. 

* The authority for his service is found in the Pension Bureau at Wash- 
ington. His widow drew a pension till her death in i860. 



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PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



There were three intermarriages in the Noyes family, making a triple line 
hi descent for its present representative from Captain Thomas Noyes and his 
wife Elizabeth Sanford, as follows: 

Captain Thomas Noyes m. Elizabeth Sanford (1705) 
Their 4th child Their 12th child 



Captain James m. Grace Billings 
Noyes 

Their 4th child 



Colonel Joseph m. Barbara Wells 

Noyes 
Their 3d child 



Thomas Noyes, 2d, m. Mary Noyes Sanford Noyes m. Martha Babcock 

Their 1st child 

George Washington Noyes m. Martha (Babcock) Noyes 




noyes antiques: chairs, stands, clock. 

The- Venetian mirror h;is a glass frame which is very beautiful. On the top of stand is a mahog 
any framed lanthorn with a candle inside, 



The antiques and relics shown in these illustrations are all heir 
looms in the possession of Martha Babcock Noyes' daughter.' 

VTrs. Mary ( Noyes) Rogers, Westerly, R. T. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION'. 



47 



Many other valuables were inherited by her in three lines from Cap- 
tain Thomas Noyes, who married Elizabeth Sanford, 1705, and arc 
still in her possession. 

The illustrations show chiefly Revolutionary relics and were the 
property of Colonel Joseph Noyes, the patriot, and of his daugh- 
ter Mary, who married her first cousin, Thomas Noyes. One silver 
spoon belonged to Rev. James and Dorothy (Stanton) Noyes (m. 
1674). The silver tankard belonged to Colonel Joseph and Bar- 
bara (Wells) Noyes (m. 1753) ; the tall clock was made by Paul 




NOYES heirlooms: jewelry, buckles, silver tableware. 
Everything is gold or silver except the necklace and earrings. \\ hich are of a mixed metal. 

Stillman of Westerly in 1807 for Thomas Noyes 2d, and cost 
$65.00, probably made to order. The tea caddy and tiny cups 
are the outgrowth of the tax on tea. The Venetian minor belonged 
to Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Joseph Noyes, and was a gift from 
a French lady, a friend of the family. Nearly everything else 



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PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



belonged to Mary and Thomas Noyes, glass, china, jewelry, silver 
spoons, tongs, stockbttckles and kneebuckles, mirror, chairs, tables, 
stands. The pewter belonged to James and Grace (Billings) Noyes. 

Grace Dcuisoii 1 1' heeler. 




COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY RELICS — PEWTER, GLASS, CHINA, SILVER. 
Heirlooms in the possession of tiie daughter of Martha Babeock Noyes. 

The genealogical data, photographs, and most of the war records in this 
sketch were furnished by Airs. Mary (Noyes) Rogers. 

Other authorities consulted were : 

Wheeler's History of Stonington. 

Noyes family papers. 

Letter from Mrs. Orson C. Rogers. 

Colonial Records of Rhode Island, pp. 315. 45S, 514. 

Storr's "French Allies." 



SARAH MARIA (DAVIS) BRAYTON 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILY— DAVIS 





SARAH MARIA (DAVIS) BRAYTON. 

AMUEL DAVIS was born in North Stonington, Feb- 
ruary 28, 1759. He was the son of a Quaker, bis 
grandfather being the noted Quaker, Peter Davis, who 
was born in England in 1680. Notwithstanding the 
fact of their Quaker ancestry, Samuel Davis and three of his brothers 
entered the Revolutionary army. He enlisted twice, from the town 
of Preston as a private under Captain William Belcher in March, 
1776, and again in September, 1782. 

Fourth Battalion 

General Wads worth's Brigade 

Colonel Samuel Selden 

Captain William Belcher (Preston). 2d Company 

1 st Lieutenant Benjamin Brewster 

2d Lieutenant Isaac Wheeler Stanton. 



50 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

He was in the battles of Trenton and Princeton, and saw the sur- 
render of Cornwallis at Yorktown. He was also in the battle of 
Groton Heights, Conn., September 6, 1781. He was never wounded 
but was somewhat lame from exposure. His widow drew a pen- 
sion after his death. 

He married Lucy Dewey, August 13, 1782, and they were the 
parents of thirteen children. He died April 11, 1826. His wife 
was born in North Stonington, May 20, 1765. After the death of 
Mr. Davis she married again and lived to be nearly ninety-four 
years old. 

Sarah Maria, the youngest child of Samuel and Lucy (Dewey) 
Davis, was born at North Stonington. She married Atwood K. 
Brayton and was the mother of eleven children. Mr. Drayton was 
from Rhode Island, a descendant of Roger Williams in the female 
line. Mrs. Drayton lived to be eighty-nine years old. 

Atwood Randall Brayton, b. Dec. 2, 1806; d. May 22, 1891. 
Sarah Maria Paris, b. Jan. 25, 181 1; d. Oct. 18, 1900. They were married 
Oct. 2, 18.51. Their children were: 

Sarah Ann Brayton, b. Dec. 13, 1832; d. Sept. 29, 1S95. 

Frances Emmeline Brayton, b. Aug. 26, 1834; d. Oct. 16, 1835. 

Atwood Winslow Brayton, b. July 18. 1X3(1. 

Frances Almira Brayton, b. Sept. 27, 1838. 

Lucy Emmeline Brayton, b. Nov. 11. 1840; d. Aug. 30, 1863. 

George Ervine Brayton, b. Mar. 31, 1843. 

Harriett Adelaide Brayton, b. July 2S, 1845. 

Charles Elias Davis Brayton, b. Feb. 21, 1848; d. Jan. 20, 1849. 

Charles Edward Brayton, b. Feb. 21, 1850; d. Mar. 2. 1850. 

Charles Erskine Brayton, b. Feb. 11, 1X51. 

Caroline Estelle Brayton, b. Mar. 5, 1854; d. Oct. 14, 1859. 

George Ervine Brayton, m. Jan. 10, 1866 Mary Ann Moore (b. Nov. 25. 1843) 
Their children were : 

Charlotte Estelle Brayton, b. Mar. 16, 1871 ; d. May 1, 1872. 

Mary Lillian Brayton, b. July 30, 1872. 

Lulu Moore Brayton, b. Aug. 22. 1880. 

Sarah Elizabeth Brayton, b. Alar. 29, 1884; d. April 11. 1884. 

Grace Denison Wheeler. 

Authorities: Denison's Westerly and its Witnesses. 

Reminiscences of the patriot preserved by family tradition. 



LUCY (STANTON) WHEELER 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILY— STANTON 




DWARD STANTON, one of the twelve children of 
Daniel and Mary (Eldridge) Stanton (who were mar- 
ried in 1740), was born in Stonington, Conn., June 10, 

1 7 ( '> 1 . 




LUCY ( STANTON ) W HEELER. 

On the morning of September 6, 1781, he, with his brother 
Daniel, and others, hastened on horseback over eleven miles to 
Groton, Conn., to volunteer in the defense of the fort. Daniel Stan- 
ton was wounded at Fort Griswold and was one of the wounded men 
whom the British soldiers in wanton cruelty put into the cart and 
let it run down the hill. He was left for dead, but crawled out, hid 
behind some bushes and was finally rescued. Edward Stanton was 
shot in the left breast, the charge tearing his side and breaking 
three ribs. As he lay on the ground, an English officer, whose name 



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he never knew, drew from his pocket a linen nightcap,* and folding 
it pressed it into the wound, giving him also a drink of water. It 
is probable that this humane act saved his life. 

Thirty-three years later, when the British attacked Stonington, 
Mr. Stanton hastened to the borough, again as a volunteer, and 
assisted in driving the enemy off. When President Monroe once 
visited Stonington, upon being introduced to Air. Stanton, he said, 




BOULDER ERECTED AUG! ST 24, 1897, BY THE WILLIAM LATHAM, JR., CHAPTER. 
C A. R., TO SERGEANT DANIEL STANTON, PATRIOT (b. 1/57). 

"( )ur independence cost us many a hard blow." Laving bare his 
bosom, drawn with the scar, Mr. Stanton replied, "Here was one 
of them." He died July 27, 1832. 

Lucy (Stanton) Wheeler was born in Stonington, Conn., Decem- 
ber 19, 1806. She was the second wife of Mr. Joseph Wheeler, 

* The nightcap and the waistcoat, the latter showing the holes made by the 
shot, have been presented by .Mrs. Wheeler to the Hartford Historical Society. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 53 

whom she married February 12, 1852. She lived in Saratoga, 
X. V., until Mr. Wheeler's death, when she returned to Stonington. 
She lived afterwards in ( )ld Mystic, and was an honored member of 
the Anna Warner I'.ailey Chapter. One nephew, living' in Califor- 
nia, is the sole descendant of her father's family. 

The genealogy of the patriot family Stanton is: 

Thomas, an early settler of Stonington, m. Anna. dan. Thomas and Dorothy 

Lord. 
Samuel, b. 1657; m. Borodel. dan. Capt. George and Ann (Borodel) Denison, 

June 16, 16S0. 
Lieut. Daniel, b. Nov. 4, 1695; m. Alary, dau. Elisba and Mary (Miner) 

Cbesebrongh in 1712; d. Jan. 31, 1769. 
Daniel, Jr., b. Sept. 4, 1716; m. Mary Eldridge. Oct. 6, 1740; d. Aug. 2. 1791. 
Edward, b. June 10, 1761 ; m. Martha, dau. Joseph and Lucy (Wheeler) Page, 

Jan. 14. 1798; d. July 27, 1832. 

The twelve children of Daniel Stanton, Jr. and Alary ( Eldridge) 
Stanton were : 

Mary. b. June 1, 1742; m. Edward Williams 1759. 

Daniel, b. Feb. 12. 1743; d. young. 

James, b. lei). 17. 1745: m. Hannah Alander. 

Abigail, b. March 6, 1748; d. young. 

Daniel, b. July 30, 1750; d. young. 

Phebe, b. 1 75 1 ; d. young. 

Phebe, b. March 9, 1754; d. 1844. 

Daniel, b. Dec. 20, 1757; m. Catherine Page 1781. 

Anna, b. Jan. 5. 1759; m. Wareham Williams. 

Edward, b. June 10, 1761 ; m. Martha Page; d. 1832. 

David, b. May 6. 1764; d. young. 

Lucy, b. ; m. Daniel Eldridge, Nov. 12, 1780. 

The children of Edward Stanton and of Martha ( Page) Stanton: 

Edward, b. June 10, 1799: d. young. 

Elisha, b. 1800; d. at sixteen years of age. 

Martha, b. 1801 ; d. unmarried. 

David, b. 1804; m. Mrs. Mary (Whiting) Park-; one son, Daniel C. 

Lucy, b. Dec. 19. 1806; m. Joseph Wheeler, Feb. 12, 1852; d. Feb. 21. 11)04. 

Edward, b. 1810; d. 1883, unmarried. 

Grace Denison Wheeler. 

Authorities: Wheeler's History of Stonington. 

Allyn's History of the Battle of Groton Heights, p. 264. 



MARY KENDRICK WILLIAMS 

RUFUS WILLIAMS 




T is asserted that Rufus Williams, at the age of sixteen, 
witnessed the massacre at Fort Griswold while fighting 
with others outside the fort. Also, that he was at one 
time a prisoner on board the "Old Prison Ship." He 
was a private in Nathan Gallup's Company. He was born Novem- 
ber 6, 1762; died May 2, 1831. Ruth Chapman, to whom he was 
married February 26, 1792, was born May 14, 1773; died Decem- 
ber 4, 1812. Their children were: 

Rufus, b. Dec. 31, 1792. 

Anna, b. Dec. 2, 1794. 

Ralph, b. Jan. 12, 1797. 

Betsey, b. Mar. 28, 1799. 

Whitman, b. June 9, 1802. 

Lucy, b. Nov. 13, 1807. 

Mary Kendrick, b. Sept. 14, 181 1, 
in North Groton (now Led- 
yard ), Conn. 

Miss Williams was voted a 
member of the Anna Warner 
Bailey Chapter during the 
summer of 1895, and accepted 
by the National Society, Jan- 
uary 31, 1896. She died 

MARY KENDRICK WILLIAMS. May 3°> 1 898. 

Authorities: Chapter Record. 

Family Bible once belonging to Anna, eldest daughter of Rufus 
Williams, now in possession of her daughter, Airs. Ann M. 
Vanauken. Family tradition. 




The cuts of the portraits in the Anna Warner Bailey sketches were kindly 
loaned by the American Monthly Magazine. 







f /^<3v 







■SS 









THE KINNE MEETING HOUSE ( 1767-1834 ) , GROTON. 



"This church was built in Groton in 1767. It was named after its first 
minister, Rev. Aaron Kinne, and was called the Kinne Meeting House. It 
was this church that the Patriots of Groton attended and their descendants 
for many years, and was the church beloved of Anna Warner Bailey. 

At the close of the Revolutionary War there was only one male member 
left, sixty valiant men having laid down their lives for their country." 




$iMvw& 



THE PALMER COAT-OF-ARMS. 



Hnnc Brewster jFanmno Chapter 



JEWETT CITY 



Baugbters of patriots 

ASA WOODWORTH 

— Grenadier 
EUNICE (PALMER) DAVIS / 
PHOEBE (PALMER) RAY [ BENJAM,N PALMER 




( UPBOARD IN THE BENJAMIN PALMER HOUSE, PENDLETON HILL, CONN, 
i Made about 1780.) 



EUNICE (PALMER) DAVIS 
PHOEBE (PALMER) RAY 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILIES 
WOODWORTH— PALMER 






HE ancestors of Benjamin Palmer were among" the earliest 
settlers of New England. 

i. Walter Palmer came from Nottinghamshire, Eng- 
land, to Charlestown, Mass., in 1629. After living in 
several places he finally established his home (1653) in Stoning- 
ton. Conn., being the fourth white man to bring a family there. 
He built on the west side of Wequetequock cove. His marriage to 
his second wife, Rebecca Short, is recorded at Roxbury, Mass., in 
1632. He held many public offices. 

2. Nehemiah was born November 2, 1037; he married Hannah 
Lord Stanton, November 20. 1662. She was the daughter of 
Thomas and Anna Stanton. Anna Stanton was the daughter of 
Thomas and Dorothy Lord. 

3. Lieutenant Joseph was born October 3, 1663 ; he married 
November 12, 1687, Frances, the daughter of Thomas and Rebecca 
(Jackson) Prentice. 

4. Deacon Joseph was born November 14, 1690; he married, April 
2, 171 1, Mary, the daughter of Gershom Palmer and his wife Ann. 
Ann Palmer was the daughter of Captain George and Ann (Boro- 
del) Denison. 

,5. Joseph was born < >ctober 30, 1719; he married. November 7. 
1 741, Catherine Coates. He was drowned off New London, Conn. 

6. Benjamin Palmer, the Revolutionary soldier, was born in 
Stonington February 26, 1757. 



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Benjamin Palmer when twenty-one years old enlisted in the 

Connecticut Militia Service of 1778 

Colonel Obadiah Johnson's Regiment 

Major Hezekiah Huntington 

Captain Moses I '.ranch's Company 

Corporal Benjamin Palmer. 

There were five Connecticut companies in Colonel Johnson's 
regiment in service in the State of Rhode Island. 




CHIMNEY OF THE HOUSE WHERE BENJAMIN PALMER WAS BORN. 

Uuilt by his father, Joseph Palmer, about 1740. 

On the main road between Voluntown anil Westerly. One-half mile from church on 

Pendleton Hill. 

His daughters recall the stories he related to them of the hard- 
ships he endured while on guard duty during the cold and rainy 
winter when lie was stationed at Providence. The family tradition 
that lie received a pension during the last ten years of his life is 
verified by the records. His name is mentioned on the Pension roll 
as eighty-three years of age in the year 1840. He was a small boy 
when his father was drowned off Xew London in 1759. Hence 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



6l 



he early developed self-reliance and practical business ability which 
enabled him later to accumulate what in those days was even more 
than a competence. His actual military record in the war is brief. 
In addition he served the patriot cause by raising' and furnishing 
army supplies. In 1814 he responded to the call to defend Ston- 
ington, and, fifty-seven years of age, walked all the way from his 
home in Voluntown to Stonington. 




ANDIRONS, CIDER .MUG. SAUCER,* ONCE THE PROPERTY OF BENJAMIN PALMER. 



Benjamin Palmer married first his cousin. Freelove Palmer. f She 
died childless, and he married, second, November 28, 1811, Hannah 
Woodworth, who was born June 1, 1785. 

* This saucer is a family heirloom. It belonged to Abigail (Palmer) Kins- 
ley (whose daughter Elizabeth was the wife of Grenadier Asa Woodworth) 
and is known to have been in the family as far back as 1740. 

7 The cupboard (see frontispiece) was made not long after Benjamin 
Palmer's marriage to Freelove Palmer, probably about [780. It was taken 
(in 1898) from the old house in which it always stood to the home of his 
daughter. Mrs. Eunice (Palmer) Davis in Jewett City, and given by Mr-. 
Davis (in 1900) to her son. F. B. Davis. Esq., Wellesley II ill-. Ma--. The 
dishes for the most part belonged to Hannah (Palmer) Stanton, oldest 
daughter of Benjamin Palmer and Hannah Woodworth. In- wife. 



62 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Their children were : 

Benjamin Woodworth, b. Jan. 25, 1813; m. Betsey Babcock Jan. 1, 1838; 

(1. July 14. 1X73. 
Amos R., b. March 15, 1815 ; d. Jan. 13, 1825. 

Hawaii. 1>. April 8, 1S17; m. Zebulon Stanton, Feb. -'3. 1X34; d. Feb. 14, 1882. 
Eunice, b. May 15. 1819; m. Martin Davis, Feb. 17, 1840; d. April 8, igoo. 
Freelove, b. August 3. 1N21 ; m. Thomas Hull, Feb. 24, 1840; d. Feb. 24, 1895. 
Phoebe, 1). July 5. 1825; m. Henry C. Ray, Oct. 25, 1846. 
Courtland, b. March 3, 1828; d. Nov. 19. 1846. 

Benjamin Palmer died April 3, 1849. His wife, Hannah (Wood- 
worth) Palmer, died Febmary 28, 1842. 

Hannah Woodworth's father, Asa Wood worth, was a soldier in 
the Revolutionary war. 

Connecticut Militia 

Twentieth Regiment 

Colonel Jedediah Huntington 

Colonel Zabdiel Rogers 

Lieut. -Col. Joshua Huntington 

Major Benajah Leffingwell 

Captain Xehemiah Waterman Tun.'s Company 

Grenadier Asa Woodworth. 

A list df those in Captain Waterman's company who were detailed 
for special service on September 19, 1782, is on record ;* of the eight 
grenadiers named three are Woodworths, Asa Woodworth head- 
ing this list of grenadiers. 

Benjamin Palmer's children, therefore, inherited patriot blood on 
both sides. Three daughters lived to see the organization of the 
National Society of Revolutionary descendants, and two became 
members of the order. 

Eunice, fourth child of Benjamin and Hannah Palmer, was one of 
the charter members of the Anne Brewster Fanning Chapter, and 
its first Vice Regent. She was born at Pendleton Hill, Yoluntown, 
Conn., near the Stonington line. She married Martin Davis, Febru- 
ary 17, 1840. To them three children were born: 

See Connecticut Men of the Revolution, p. 588. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 63 

Emma Ann, b. May 8, 1841 ; d. Feb. 26, 1893. 

Amos Palmer, b. March 23, 1843: a resident of Jewett City. 

Frank Biddle, b. Sept. 6, 1857; a pen artist in Boston. 

Until a short time before her death Mrs. Davis was strong in 
body and mind, taking an active interest in the domestic affairs of 
her family. She was one of the oldest members of the Baptist 




EUNICE ( PALMER > DAVIS. 

Church, and was rarely absent from the Sunday service. An active 
member of the Missionary Society, the King's Daughters, and the 
Women's Christian Temperance Union, she was an example oi the 

ideal Christian. Mrs. Davis died in Jewett City, Conn.. April 8, 
1900. 



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Her sister. Airs. Phoebe (Palmer) Ray of Scotland, Conn., was 
admitted to the same Chapter in January, 1899. She was born in 




PHOEBE (PALMER) RAY. 



Vohmtown, Conn., July 5, 1825. She married Henry C. Ray, of 
Norwich, October 25. 1846. Their children were: 

Henry Gideon, b. Sept. 17, 1847. 
Phoebe Elizabeth, b. Aug. 31, 1849. 
Courtland Palmer, b. May ^o, 1852. 
Mary Emma, b. Oct. 31, 1854. 
1 .1 ( y Jane, b Sept. 28., 1N57. 
[da Mav, b. March 21, i860. 
Benjamin Herbert, 1). Dec. 30, 1S62. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 65 

In 1896 Mr. and Airs. Ray celebrated their golden wedding. 
Although not robust, Airs. Ray is quite active, and especially inter- 
ested in the affairs of her own home, where she and her husband are 
passing the last years of their life together. 




HOME OF PHOEBE (PALMER) KAY, SCOTLAND, CONN. 

(On the farm are seven shallow wells, said to have been dug by the French soldiers encamped 
there during the Revolution.) 



Ellen Rigby Davis. 

( MRS. FRANK B. DA\ IS. I 

Marietta S. Geer. 



Authorities: Connecticut Men in the War Am. Rev., pp. 527, 057. 

Palmer Records, Vol. I. Edited by Noyes F. Palmer, 1881. 
History of Stonington, by Richard A. Wheeler. 
Letters of Miss Julia Wells Palmer, and others. 
Family papers and family tradition. 




AZARIAH SAWYERS HYMN BOOK, 1 777. 



(Used by him at service one Sunday morning two hours previous to the start on the march 

to Saratoga.) 



Hnne iMoob Eloerfcin Chapter 



WILLIMANTIC 



©aucibters of patriots 

AZARIAH SAWYER 

ANGELINA (LORING) AVERY SOLOMON LORING 



MINERVA GRANT) SNOW HAMILTON GRANT 

— Drummer 






**^r:*. 




THE HOME OF SOLOMON LORING, LEBANON 



ANGELINA (LORING) AVERY 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILIES 
SAWYER— LORING 




|X 1780, when recruits were greatly needed, Solomon 
Loring of Hingham, Mass., a boy of fourteen years 
(born December 28th, 1765), enlisted in the Continental 
army. He served as aide to Colonel Yost, who was sta- 
tioned on the Hudson and thus took part in several skirmishes. (He 
was granted a pension for twenty-four months actual service.) 

In his early manhood he removed to Plainfield, Connecticut, and 
married (in 1787) Susannah Whipple of Plainfield, who died (Janu- 
ary 11, 1814) childless, nearly twenty-seven years after their wed- 
ding day. In 1814 he married Mira Sawyer, of Windham, and 
after her death (November 7, 1827), when he was over sixty-three 
years of age, he married her sister, Angelina Sawyer. 

About the beginning of this century, he came to Lebanon and built 
a house on the northern slope of the hills which overlook "old 
Windham" and the lovely valleys of the Willimantic and Natchaug 
rivers. 

In this house there occurred, July 16th, 1839, both a birth and a 
death. The birth was that of Angelina, Solomon Loring's ninth 
child: the death, that of Angelina Loring. his wife, who gave her 
life for her babe. Solomon Loring was then seventy-four years old. 
Since that date no child has been born in the United States to a 
Revolutionary soldier. Solomon Loring died February 19th, 1842. 
His daughter Angelina, though but two years and seven months 
old at that time, retains a distinct memory of her father. 

Under the guardianship of an aunt, Angelina grew to womanhood 
among the Lebanon hills, attending school in Lebanon and in nearby 
prosperous Willimantic. On July 1st. [856, she married Elisha B. 
Avery, and four children have been born to them. The onlv daugh- 



70 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

ter 3 the special light and joy of the home, died October ioth, 1882, 
aged twenty-one, following a young brother who was "taken home" 
thirteen years before. At the old homestead, the place of her birth 
and of her marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Avery* and their youngest son 
are living. Here are preserved family treasures of manuscripts and 
books, furniture and china. 

It was not from her father alone that Airs. Avery received a 
heritage of patriotism. Her grandfather, Azariah Sawyer (born 
September 11, 1755), served during most of the eight years' struggle 
for freedom and many were the stories told of his courage and 
daring. He once rescued a woman and child, who were in danger 
from a party of British soldiers. None of the three was wounded, 
though bullets fell fast around them. He was one of the prison 
ship victims at Xew York. He fought at White Plains and in the 
two battles at Saratoga. One of Mrs. Avery's treasures is the 
hymn book which he was using in the Lord's house one Sunday 
morning in 1777. During the service he heard the drum beating 
"to arms," and in two hours he started with others on the long 
march to Saratoga in 

The Connecticut Militia of 1777 

Colonel Latimer's Regiment 

Captain Wales' Company. 

The Connecticut militia was sent to re-enforce General Gates, and 
fought in both battles of Saratoga, September 19 and October 9, 1777. 
They lost more than any regiment in the field, and after the sur- 
render of Burgoyne, General Gates spoke of them as "the two 
excellent regiments from Connecticut." 

Azariah Sawyer of Windham also saw service at West Point in 
1781 under 

Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Canfield 
Major Hezekiah Huntington (Windham). 

* Mrs. Avery became a member of Anne Wood Elderkin Chapter, D. A. R., 
■December 5, 1895, and the following year she was made Honorary Regent. 
She is the youngest patriot's daughter in the National Society. 




THE GRAVES OF AZARIAH SAWYER, HIS WIFE, AND TWO CHILDREN. WINDHAM. 



y 2 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

The register of the births, marriages and deaths in Solomon 
Loring's family is as follows: 

Solomon Loring, m. ( i ) Susannah Whipple, Jan. 28, 1787; (2) Mira Sawyer, 

March 10. 1814; (3) Angelina Sawyer, March 23, 1828; d. Feb. 19, 
1842, aged 76 years. 

Angelina Sawyer, b. Jan. 21, 1794; d. July 16, 1839, aged 45 years. 

The children of Solomon Loring by his second wife, Mira (Sawyer) 
Loring, were : 

Abner Dunbar, b. May 8. 1815; m. (1) Mary Ann Adams; (2) Harriet A. 

Moulton; (3) Elizabeth Safford ; d. Dec. 26, 1897. They had no 

children. 
Nathaniel Hart, b. Jan. 29, 1S18; m. Jane Newcomb ; d. Aug. 2^, 1848. 

They had four children. 
Susannah, b. April 15, 1821 ; d. Nov. 1864. 

Hannah, b. April 22, 1822; m. Henry Newcomb; d. . No children. 

Solomon Pitt. b. Aug. 6. 1823; d. April 29, 1824. 

The children of Solomon Loring by his third wife, Angelina (Sawyer) 
Loring: 

Harriet, b. Dec. 2. [828; d. Dec. 25, 1878. 

Sally, b. Jan. 2, 1832; m. Nathaniel A. Brown; d. Sept. 5, 1863. They had 

six children. 
Angelina, b. July 16, 1839. 

Angelina Loring married Elisha B. Avery July 1, 1856. They had four 
children, as follows ; 

Eddie Dwight Avery, b. Oct. 17, 1858; d. Aug. 4, 1869. 
Allyn J. Avery, b. Feb. 7, i860. 

Harriet Sawyer Avery, b. May 1. 1861 ; d. Oct. 10, 1882: 
Fred Lester Avery, b. July 9. 1882. 

Minnie Pomeroy Cooler. 

IMK^. THERON MERRIAM COOI.EY.) 



MINERVA (GRANT) SNOW 

HAMILTON GRANT— PATRIOT 




AMILTON GRANT, the father of Minerva (Grant) 
Snow, was born in Ashford, Windham Co., Conn., in 
1759 ; died in Mansfield, August 8, 1822, and was buried 
in Ashford. 

He was in Colonel Knowlton's company with General Putnam, at 
the battle of Bunker Hill, and was wounded, narrowly escaping 
capture by the British : 

Continental Regiments of 1775 

Third Regiment. General Israel Putnam 

Fifth Company Captain Thomas Knowlton (Ashford). 

The next year at the age of seventeen, he enlisted as a drummer 
in the Brigade which was raised in June, 1776, to reinforce Wash- 
ington in New York ; he was in the engagement at White Plains. 

General Wadsworth's Brigade, Sixth Battalion, 1776 

Colonel John Chester's 1 brigade 

Adjutant Benjamin Tallmadge 

Captain Reuben Marcy's Company 

Drummer Hamilton Grant. 

His time expired December 25, 177'". when he came home, but 
soon enlisted again and served through the remaining seven years 
of the war. 

In Colonel Knowlton's account book, now in possession of the 
Connecticut Historical Society, are the names of the members of his 
company, and the autograph of Hamilton Grant is said to be as fine 
as plate work. He was a writer of verse, was called the poet oi 
his regiment, and is said to have been a tall, fine-looking man who, 
after the war. was lame and taught in the public schools. 



74 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Hamilton Grant married, April n, 1802. Lucy Williams of Gro- 
ton, who is said to be a descendant of Roger Williams, first settler 
of Rhode Island. The house which Mr. Grant built, and where 
he and his family lived, is now standing, and is in a good state of 
preservation. He was, at one time, a man of considerable wealth, 
but lost his property in a series of law suits which displayed the 
stubbornness of his character ; he was then obliged to move with 
his family to Mansfield, Conn., where after a few years he died, 
leaving a widow twenty years his junior, with eight small children, 
one having died in childhood. John, born Sept. 2, 1802 ; Nelson, 
born March 22, 1804; Nancy, born July 14, 1805 ; Miranda, Billings 
and Clarissa, were born in Ashford ; Minerva, born April 2~, 1817; 
James Mtmroe and Elizabeth Jane were born in Mansfield. 

At the age of twenty-three Minerva Grant was married to George 
Bartholomew Snow of Willington, Conn. They were the parents 
of seven children,* six of whom are now living. 

People who knew Mrs. Snow in her younger days say that she 
was possessed of much personal beauty. She was a woman of 
great vitality and natural ability and spent many active years in the 
care of her family and in the performance of her domestic duties. 
Many years ago she became a church member and now belongs to 
the 1 baptist Church of Willington, Conn. She has been a widow 
nearly twenty-five years. 

Several years ago she was thrown from a carriage and received 
a broken hi]), and for one of her age made a remarkable recovery. 
She has had since that accident paralytic shocks, and now in her 
eighty-seventh year she is almost entirely helpless and talks with 
difficulty. Her hearing and eyesight are excellent ; her memory in 

* The children of George Bartholomew Snow and Minerva (Grant) Snow, 
his wife, are : 

Eliza Jane, b. Jan. 31, 1841; m. Charles A. Southworth. 

Lurv Ann, b. July 23, 1842 ; d. . 

Ellen Adelaide, b. Sept. 9, 1844; m. (1) Carlton Bassett ; (2) Delos Conant. 
George Wixfield, b. April 9, 1X49; m. (1) Helen Rider: (2) Fanny Egber- 

tene Vail. 
Andrew Wade, b. Oct., 1850; m. Aurilla Parker. 
Julia Emma, b. Jan. 29, 1854; m. George Wilson. 
Charles Herbert, b. Oct., 1861 ; m. Margaret Patten. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 75 

certain respects is poor and the perceptions slow, but when a decision 
is reached, it is always a wise one ; and she has the happy faculty 
of looking upon the humorous side of things. Mrs. Snow endures 
the infirmities of ill-health and old age with patience and cheerful- 
ness and enjoys having her family about her. Mrs. Snow became a 
member of Anne Wood Elderkin Chapter of Willimantic, June 4th, 
1896, and finds much pleasure and interest in this connection with 
the D. A. R. order. 

Some years ago she left Wellington and came to live with her 
daughter* in Willimantic, where several children reside. 

Fanny Vail Snow. 

(MRS. GEO. WINFIELD SNOW.) 

* Mrs. C. A. Southworth. 

Authority for Revolutionary Records: 
Conn. Hist. Coll., vol. viii, p. 15. 
Connecticut Men in the Revolution. 







JOSEPH HYDE, PATRIOT. 



Zbc Dovotb? (Ripley Chapter 

SOUTHPORT 

JDauQbters of patriots 

EBENEZER JESSUP 

— Surgeon 

MARY AUGUSTA (HYDE) SHERWOOD JOSEPH HYDE 



JANE 'SMITH) EVELETH BENJAMIN SMITH 

— Fifer 



JULIA BANKS WILSON ELIJAH BANKS 



JOHN BANKS 
PAMELA BANKS NATHAN BANKS 




MARY AUGUSTA (HYDE) SHERWOOD. 



MARY AUGUSTA (HYDE) SHERWOOD 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILIES 
JESSUP— HYDE 




BARY AUGUSTA (HYDE) SHERWOOD, daughter of 
Joseph 5 (Joseph 4 , John 3 , John 2 , Humphrey 1 ) Hyde and 
Arete (Jessup) Hyde, was born July 12, 1813, and mar- 
ried in 1S37 Captain Edwin Sherwood. Deacon Joseph 
Hyde (born Jan. 3, 1761 ; died December 3, 1850). father of Mrs. 
Sherwood, served nine months in 1777 in the Coast Guard, under 
Captain Joseph Bennett, and Stephen Wakeman ; and also for nine 
months in the militia under Generals Silliman and Arnold, at the 
time of Tryon's attack (April, 1777) upon Danbury. He was under 
arms at Ridgefield, Fairfield, Norwalk and Compo. where he received 
a bullet in the hip,* which was never removed, and which lamed him 
for life. He always used two canes. 

Airs. Sherwood's grandfather, Ebenezer Jessup, M.D. 4 (Edward", 
Edward 2 , Edward 1 ), was born March 4. 1739 (A.B. Yale 1760). 
He served as ensign in the militia in 1777.T 

Colonel Samuel Whiting's Regiment 

Fourth Militia 

Commanded by Lieut-Col. Jonathan Dimon 

Captain Thomas Nash's Company 

Ensign Ebenezer Jessup. 

* The above facts are derived from a statement in Deacon Hyde's hand- 
writing sworn to by him, and verified under oath, by a comrade in arms; 
a statement which has been received as authoritative by both societies, "Sons 
and "Daughters" of the American Revolution. There 1- some reason to 
believe that Deacon Hyde prepared this paper, with a view to applying for a 
pension, but later decided not to ask it. 

t Conn. Men in Revolution, page 518. 



PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



He was at Peekskill in October, 1777, and was surgeon with the 
Continental army at Cherry Valley, X. Y.* 

Thus on both sides. Mrs. Sherwood inherited patriotic principles 
and enthusiasms as well as high moral culture. 

The home of Joseph Hyde is in Greens Farms Parish, now 
Westport, then Fairfield. Mrs. Sherwood was born there. Her 
grandfather Hyde built it for her father in 1795. In a memorandum 
of Joseph Hyde, in the possession of his granddaughters, is this 
entry, "We moved into the new house Dec. 12, 1795." It was Mrs. 

St 




THE HOME OF JOSEPH HYDE, PATRIOT. 

Sherwood's home till her marriage, and her nieces? now own and 
occupy it. 

Joseph Hyde lived to be nearly ninety years old. He used to drive 
down to the village of Southport almost daily. He was fond of 
children. When near the village he would whistle till the children 
came from far and near, and often he entered the market place, his 
wagon swarming with little folks, most likely all singing. 

Mrs. Sherwood's life was passed within five miles of her birth- 
place; and its devotion to a lofty ideal found chief manifestation 

* Family Documents and Traditions. 
1 Misses Eleanor and Louisa llvde. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 8l 

in "the sweet safe corner by the household fire, behind the heads 
of children." Yet her sympathies and benefactions were wide ; and 
though there were few "events" in her life, love and tenderness and 
heroic patience increased with increasing years. When, in 1893, 
she joined the National Society, she had been for eleven years a 
prisoner in the room which she left only to enter into the joy of her 
Lord. She rejoiced greatly in the privilege of joining the Societv, 
and the remaining months of her life were brighter because she was 
enrolled as a "Real Daughter" of the American Revolution. 

Children of Ebenezer Jesup, M.D., and of Eleanor Andrews, his 
wife (1738- 1 772) : 

Ebenezer. bapt. Jan. 1, 1768; m. about 1790, Sarab, dan. of Obadiah and Sarab 

(Adams) Wright; d. May 5, 1851. 
Arete, b. April 22, 1770; m. Dec. 16, 1790, Joseph Hyde; d. Dec. 24, 1844. 
Edward, bapt. March 14, 1772; d. in infancy. 

Children of Joseph and Arete (Jesup) Hyde: 

Arete, b. Dec. 16, 1791 ; d. Nov. 25, 1811. 

Eleanor, b. June 17, 1793; d. Aug. 11, 1857. 

John, b. Jan. 11, 1795; d. Aug. 9, 1806. 

Miranda, b. Dec. 8, 1796; d. Dec. 10, 1882. 

Rev. Joseph, b. Sept. 20, 1798; d. Dec. 24, 1824; Yale, 1N20. 

Ebenezer, b. July 2~j, 1800; d. Aug. 12, 1801. 

Rachel, b. June 13, 1802; m. 1825 Ebenezer Andrews; d. Aug. 13, 1881. 

Edward, b. March 1, 1804; m. Sept., 1826. Sarah, dau. of Jonathan and Sarah 

(Redfield) Burr; d. .May 15, 1887. 
William Swift, b. Nov. 18, 1805; m. Oct., 1836, Adeline Allen; d. in Collins. 

Ohio, May 5, 1895. 
John Sherwood, b. July 19, 1807; m. Feb. 21, 1837. Harriet Louisa Adam-: 

d. March 27, 1886. 
Samuel, b. and d. Feb. 27, 1809. 
Mary Augusta, b. July 12, 1813; m. Dec. 12, 1837. Edwin Sherwood, son of 

William and Abigail (Couch) Sherwood; d. Jan. 5, 1894. 

Edwin Sherwood (born February 24, 1805; died September 11, 
1886) and Alary Augusta (Hyde) Sherwood, his wife, had two 
sons who are both living, viz.: Edwin Hyde and Simon ("ouch 
Sherwood. 

Matilda Meeker {Simpson) Sherwood. 

S. SIM) IN CI 'I C H SHERWOl >1>. I 




BENJAMIN SMITH, PATRIOT, I/65-1863 
98 years anil 3 months old 
(Daguerreotype taken May, 1S63) 




JANE ( SM 1TH ) EVELETH 



JANE (SMITH) EVELETH 

BENJAMIN SMITH— PATRIOT 




AXE (SMITH) EVELETH was the fourth child of 
Benjamin Smith and of his second wife, Mary Elizabeth 
Graves. 

Benjamin Smith was born at Needham, .Mass., Febru- 
ary 18. 1765. and died at Hopkinton, Mass., June 18, 1863. He 
enlisted in the Revolutionary army, December, 1781, and served two 
years in a Massachusetts regiment. He was a musician and his fife 
is preserved among - other relics in the State House at Boston — per- 
haps because it was used for two years by a boy-patriot. Benjamin 
Smith's military service was with General Washington's army, chiefly 
on the Hudson River.* His granddaughter^ once heard him say 
that General Washington patted him on the shoulder, saving: "You 
are very young, but we will have to let you go." 

After peace was declared he received from the government ninety- 
six dollars in Continental money, and, because the funds in the 
treasury were insufficient to meet all claims, a grant of land in what 
is now the city of Poughkeepsie was added. Mrs. Eveleth remem- 
bered how he and his son Benjamin (a child of the first wife) started 
in an emigrant wagon for Poughkeepsie, and took up his land, pay- 
ing for a portion fifty cents per acre, which was called a big price. 
He returned for his family, but sickness discouraged him. and he 
never went back to Poughkeepsie. 

The picture accompanying this sketch was taken alter his ninety- 
eighth birthday. 

Not long before his death, the Tenth Massachusetts Regiment 
"going to the front" in the Civil War marched by his house, saluting 
him and receiving his salutation and I iodspeed. 

* U. S. Pension Records. 

f Mrs. Peet, the writer of this sketch. 



84 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

I [e married first - — . Son Benjamin , and per- 

haps other children. 

He married second, Mary Elizabeth Graves. 

Children : 

Mary, m. Mr. Wolcott of Providence, R. I. (not living). 
Sumner, m. Mary, daughter of Major Horace Goodwin of Hartford. 
Jane, b. Sept. 30, 1816; m. July 16, 1835, in Newton, Mass., Asa Whitcomb 
Eveleth (July 6, 1812— Jan. 4, 1880). 

Four daughters and three sons were born to her. A devoted wife, 
a loving mother, Mrs. Eveleth's life was passed in quiet, practical 
Christianity, beloved and honored by all who knew her. Her home, 
after August 18, 1897, when she fell, breaking both hip and knee, 
was for two years with her youngest daughter* in Hartford, Conn. 

She died September 26, 1900, at the house of her daughterf in 
Springfield, Mass. 

Children of Jane Smith and Asa Whitcomb Eveleth : 

Persis Jane. b. May 14, 1836; m. Joshua F. Tannatt ; d. April 4, 1902. 

Sarah Ann, b. May 8, 1838; m. Joseph K. Newell. 

Mary Elizabeth, b. Sept. 20, 1840; m. B. Frank Peet. 

James Whitcomb, b. Nov. 16, 1843 ; m. Augusta McNeil. 

Marion Emily, b. Feb. 20, 1846 ; m. Charles R. Salmon. 

Si \iner Smith, b. May 28, 1848; lived sixteen months. 

Henry Smith, b. April 14, 1853; d. April 16, 1853. 

Mary Elisabeth (Eveleth) Peet. 

(MRS. 15. F. PEET.) 

* Mrs. Charles R. Salmon. 
t Mrs. B. F. Peet. 



JULIA (BANKS) WILSON 

ELIJAH BANKS— PATRIOT 




ULIA (BANKS) WILSON" was the ninth and youngest 
child of Elijah and Mabel (Ogden) Banks of Greenfield 
Hill, where she was horn January 21, 1807. 

On January 1, 1835, she was married to Benjamin 
Wilson, and ever after lived in the house in which she was horn, 
and which was built for her father, on his marriage in 1784. 

Elijah Banks, born August 7, 1762, "served in 1778 for two 
months on the lines as guard at Horse Neck ; and from April, i"<>. 
nine months in Eairfield Coast Guard under Captain Eliphalet Thorp. 
Also from April, 1781, nine months under Captain Thorp, as 
guard, patrolling the seashore at Southport Harbor, and Sasco Flats. 
He died at Fairfield, Conn., March 3, 1816, aged nearly fifty-four 
years. He was not a pensioner, but his widow applied in November, 
1838, and received a pension.* Elijah Banks was married in Fair- 
field, November 25, 1784, to Mabel Ogden. "f 

Mrs. Wilson remembered much that her father had told her of 
the march of the British soldiers, through the country road known 
as Cross Highway, on the expedition to destroy Danbury, A 
horse was taken from the farm of her grandmother, Mrs. Samuel 
Ogden, who lived on this road. Mrs. Ogden herself Med in terror 
to the house of her brother, Walter Banks — a terror not unfounded, 
as the soldiers proved themselves most insulting and abusive, 
destroying property in sheer wantonness. 

Mrs. Wilson's mother ( Mabel Ogden) long owned a pistol 
dropped by one of the invaders, which she picked up, as she stole 
timidly to a neighbor's to borrow some fire, when the "red coats" 
had passed on. Nor were all the fierce passions on the British side. 
A man named Finch guided the British soldiers to a ford across 

* Conn. Men in the Revolution, page 663. 
f True copy of paper from Pension Bureau. 



86 



PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



the Saugatuck River ; and when his neighbors learned this, in rage 
at what they deemed treachery, and at the consequent exposure of 
their homes and families to Hessian brutality, they seized the Tory 
guide, tied him to a horse's tail, and drove the horse up and down, 
until their victim was dead. 

At one house, the black serving man fled to the barn, and wedged 
himself under the barn floor until the raiders had gone. 




HOME OF ELIJAH BANKS. BUILT IN 1784. 
Also birthplace and home of Julia (Hanks) Wilson, Greenfield Hill, Town of Fairfield. 



At another house, the raiders demanded food. There was neces- 
sarily some slight delay in preparing it, and the soldiers seized the 
clothes which were drying from the weekly wash, laid them on a 
block, and with an axe chopped them to pieces, as if they had 
been firewood. 

Airs. Wilson was long a widow — three only of her six children 
survive her. She was alert and vigorous, her mind cheerful and 
active, in spite of the burden of years, and the many sorrows which 
had saddened her heart but not overwhelmed her Christian faith 
and courage. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 87 

After the death of her youngest daughter Julia, Mrs. Wilson 
removed to Bridgeport and lived with her daughter Mrs. Gregory, 
until her death on September 28, 1900, aged ninety-three. 

To her, as to all Daughters of Patriots, membership in the National 
Society and the gift of the gold spoon were most gratifying testi- 
mony of the esteem in which her father's services were held and of 
her own relations to the past. 

Children of Elijah and Mabel (Ogden) Banks, married Novem- 
ber 25, 1784: 

Mary, b. June 22, 1786; m. Peter Winton. March 18, 1807; d. Dec. 3, 1846. 

Anna. b. Sept. 8, 1787; m. Robert Turney, April 13, 1805; d. May 2, 1865. 

Elijah, b. May 11, 1790; 111. Sally Coley; d. April. 1840. 

Harriet, b. Nov. 15, 1792; m. Walter Perry; d. March 3, 1818. 

Samuel Ogden, b. Nov. 7, 1795; m. Mary Banks, June 16. 1825; d. Sept. 12, 

1832. 
Finnetta, b. March 2S, 1798; m. Sturges Raymond, April 18, 1821 ; d. Sept. 

20, 1873. 
William, b. Feb. 6, 1801 ; m. Harriet Furman ; d. Nov. 15, 1845. 
Marietta, b. Oct. 26, 1803; m. David Sanford, Oct. 31. 1824; d. Aug. 17, 1836. 
Julia, b. Jan. 21, 1807; m. Benjamin Wilson, Jan. 1, 1835; d. Sept. 28, 1900. 

Children of Benjamin and Julia ( Banks) Wilson: 

Mary S. (Wilson) Gregory, b. Nov. 15, 1837. 

Eleanor (W t ilson) Upson, b. Jan. 8, 1831). 

M \k\iN B. Wilson, b. Jan. 10, 1842: <1. Aug. 6, 1894. 

Moses A. Wilson, b. Oct. 17, 1843; d. at sea in the service of his country, 

March 6, 1865. 

Julia M. Wilson, b. April 10. 1845; d. Feb. 11, 1898. 
Morris L. Wilson, b. April 2T,, 1847. 

Rebekah J J'. P. Bulkley. 

HENRY THORP Bl LKLEV . I 



PAMELA BANKS 

NATHAN BANKS— PATRIOT 




AMELA, tenth and youngest child of Nathan and Mabel 
(Bradley) Banks, was born April 4, 1806. 

Nathan Banks was born May 6, 1760 and died March 
10, 1847 in Fairfield, Conn.; he married April 1, 1781, 
Mabel Bradley (born December 19, 1762; died June 15, 1858). 
I 11 1775 Nathan Banks served two months in 

General Gold Selleck Silliman's Brigade 

Lieut. -Colonel Jonathan Dimon's Regiment 

Captain Ebenezer Hill. 

in place of his brother Aaron, who had married into a Tory family, 
and whose wife was bitterly opposed to his serving. His company 
was ordered to New York City, where he remained until his father 
took his place. In the summer of 1776 he served one month under 
Colonel Whiting at Stratford, Greens Farms, and Northfield. One 
of his duties was cutting fascines. In April, 1777, he served eight 
months in 

General Gold Selleck Silliman's Brigade 
Colonel Samuel Whiting's Regiment 
Captain Eliphalet Thorp's Company, 

guarding the sea coast; and in July, 1778, he served one month at 
Horseneck for his brother Peter, under Captain St. John of New 
Canaan ; also one week when Fairfield and Norwalk were burnt, 
July, 1779. In April, 1780, he enlisted for twelve months under 
Sergeant Isaac Jarvis, and was stationed at Fairfield.* 

Once during the war he conducted twenty prisoners from Fairfield 
to Hartford, all parties walking every step of the way.f Miss 
Pamela remembered her father's story of the march to Hartford. 

I S. Pension Record. 
f History of Fairfield Co., page 308. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 89 

A band of about twenty "Red Coats" looted a tavern kept by Moses 
Ogden, not far from tbe Banks home. They found rum, sugar and 
segars in abundance, broke up the sugar barrels, scattering the sugar 
over the floor and dancing in the barn ; then marched toward Wilton, 
where they were taken prisoners, and put in charge of Nathan Banks, 
whom they tried to kill in their efforts to escape. 

Nathan Banks lived in a house built for him in 1781, by his 
father, John Banks. "He had a farm of one hundred acres, but not 
being sufficiently robust to cultivate it himself, be taught a select 
school for rears." 




HOME OF NATHAN BANKS, PATRIOT. 

louse where Pamela Hanks was born, lived and died. Built soon after the Revolution. 
Greenfield Hill, Town of Fairfield. 



Children of Nathan and Mabel (Bradley) Banks: 

Mabel, b. Oct. 31, 1781 ; m. 1797 Hezekiah Sherwood; d. 1803 
Eli, b. April 19, 1786; d. in infancy. 
Medad, b. April 27, 1788. 
Clarissa, b. Sept. 6, 1791. 
Nathan, b. Sept. 24, 1793. 



90 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Bradley, b. Feb. n, 1795; m. Jan. 3, 1819, Polly Banks; d. Nov. 27, 1825. 
Aaron, b. July [3, 1797; m. (1) Sarah Whitney. (2) Polly A. Sherwood; d. 

Sept. [3, [858. 

Makilda, b. Nov. 29. 1799. 

I'.ki sky, b. June 9, 1801. 

Pamela, 1). April 4, 1804; d. April 15, 1898. 

Aunt Pamela, as she was called, always lived in the house in which 
she was born, busy with farm life, and devoted to her aged parents. 
Once only did she go away from home. About 1837, she spent two 
weeks in Xew York with a cousin," and was so homesick that she 
never wished to go away again. 

She remembered the events and people of her youth, and delighted 
to recount her achievements in spinning and weaving. "Every 
year," she said, "1 spun and wove one hundred yards of linen cloth. 
It took a whole field to bleach it. Then I made it up into sheets 
and pillow cases. J have never slept in cotton sheets" 

She was admitted to the Greenfield Church in March, 1843, an d 
was its oldest member at the time of her death. 

She outlived all of her immediate family, and, infirm and nearly 
blind, her connection with the local chapter. Daughters of the Ameri- 
can Revolution, was most cheering. 

When the gold spoon was presentedt to her on December 18, 
1897, it was touching to witness her pleasure and gratitude. 

She died April 15, 1898, aged ninety-two years. 

Rebekah W. P. Bulkley. 

(MRS. HENRY THORP BULKLEY.) 

fc Mrs. Eliza (Sherwood) Beers. 
t By Airs. Edw. Livingston Wells, Regent. 



B5li5abctb fl>orter Ipmtnam Chapter 



2>ainibters of patriots 

SARAH (ANDERSON) EXTON GEORGE ANDERSON 

— Captain 

HEPZIBAH MARIA (SMITH) RHODES ALEXANDER SMITH 
HANNAH (GREEN) ROBBINS JOSEPH GREEN 




CHEST OF DRAWERS. 

Owned by George Anderson (Trenton, New Jersey), bearing marks of British bayonets. 



SARAH (ANDERSON) EXTON 

GEORGE ANDERSON— PATRIOT 




|M(.)X(.i the honored names of historie Trenton (New 
Jersey) are the names of George Anderson and Sarah 
Skirm, his wife. George Anderson* was foremost in 
the ranks of the friends of liberty, and soon after the 



opening of the Revolutionary War organized, by his own exertions 
and personal influence, a military company, received a Captain's 
commission, and joined his fortunes to those of the American 
colonies. He engaged in the battle of Long Island and also per- 
formed much dangerous and arduous duty elsewhere, following the 
standard of freedom throughout the long and doubtful struggle, only 
sheathing his sword when victory was achieved and liberty and peace 
assured. In recognition of these patriotic services, his name is on 
the pension rolls of his country. 

During his absence from home, his family were often annoyed by 
visits from British soldiers seeking plunder. There remains in their 
possession a piece of furniture bearing marks of bayonets made as 
the locks resisted the hurried search for valuables. 

Eight children were born to George Anderson and his wife, as 
follows : 

Ann Maria, m. Elijah Hutchinson. 
Aaron, m. Mary Evans. 
Nathan, m. Abigail Childs. 
Mary, m. Samuel Evans. 
James, m. Thirza Allen. 
Eleanor, m. William Allen. 
Matilda, m. Hugh Capner. 

Sarah Ann. b. Feb. 6, 1807; m. Thomas Exton. of Clinton, N. J., Feb. 3, 1830. 
He died in 1857. 

* Born 1751, died Nov. 8, 1839. 



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PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



Eight children were born to Thomas Exton and Sarah (Ander- 
son ) Exton, his wife, as follows: 

George Anderson, b. March i, 1831 ; m. Sallie Brearley. 
Mary Capxek. b. Feb. 18, 1833; m. Edgar Clarke. 
Sarah Skikm, b. June 21, 1835; rn. Benjamin Baker. 

Eleanor Allen, b. Nov. 3. 1837; rn. Seth Stoddard; d. . 

Ann Maria, b. Dec. 15, 1839; m. Landon R. Goodwin. 
Lewis Anderson, 1>. May 27, 1X42; m. Christianna Bird. 
James Anderson, b. Nov. X, 1X44; m. Mafia Van Pelt. 
Harriet Provost, b. July 5. 1X47; m. John E. Cumins. 




SARAH ( ANDERSON) EXTON. 

Mrs. Sarah (Anderson) Exton became a member of the National 
Society in 1897 and a charter member, aged ninety years, of the 
Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, and their first "Real Daughter." 
Her daughter and granddaughter are also charter members of the 
same chapter. She received the gold spoon of the Society with 
marked pleasure and cherished it until her death, which occurred at 
the home of her daughter in Arlington, New Jersey, July 10, 1899. 
At this time her whole family of eicJit children were living. 



HEPZIBAH MARIA (SMITH) RHODES 

ALEXANDER SMITH— PATRIOT 




HE second "Real Daughter," and a charter member of the 
Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, is Hepzibah Maria 
(Smith) Rhodes. She was the youngest of twelve 
children born in Sutton, Mass., July 31, 1810, to Alex- 
ander and Hepzibah (Hobbs) Smith. Her father, Alexander Smith, 
was born February 14, 1762, in East Sudbury, Mass., and though 
but a youth, served in the American army with numerous others 
from Middlesex County, Mass. Plis record is unmarked by particu- 
lar incident and no family traditions exist; but his services received 
due acknowledgment, for his name is found upon the pension rolls 
of his liberated country. The date of his death, which occurred at 
Grafton, Mass., is unknown. 

His daughter, Hepzibah, orphaned at an early age, was married 
in [83] to George B. Rhodes of Thompson, Conn., where she reside.'! 
for fifty-six years. To them was born one daughter, Georgianna.* 
The date of her husband's death is not definitely known. In [833 
Mrs. Rhodes was married to Horatio Nelson Rhodes, a brother of 
her first husband. Eleven children were born to them as follows : 
Joseph C, Sail}- A., Franklin H., James S., Charles N., Fannie A I., 
Henry E., Ellen L., Abbie [., Emma, and Julia E. 

The last eleven years of her life Mrs. Rhodes spent with her 
daughter Julia, j in Haverhill, Mass. She was a church member 
for more than sixty years; her death occurred on April n, 1898, in 
her eighty-eighth year ; she is survived by ten children. 

* Airs. Allen Bixby. 
fMrs. A. A. West. 



HANNAH (GREEN) ROBBINS 

JOSEPH GREEN— PATRIOT 




AXXAH (GREEN) ROBBINS was born January 2, 
1808, and is the third, and the only surviving "Real 
Daughter," whom the Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter 
has had the honor to enroll among its membership. Her 
father was Joseph Green, one of the eight sons of Timothy Green 
and Annie ( Gallup ) Green, his wife. Joseph Green was born in 
Thompson, Conn., February 2, 1756. Left fatherless at four years 
01 age, he went to live with his uncle Amos, of whom local history 
( Miss Larned's History of Windham County) relates that "with his 
father Harry Green and other brothers, he [Amos] owned and 
operated several saw-mills and built the first churches and school 
houses erected in his native town." Joseph Green engaged in this 
work until his enlistment into the Continental army in his twen- 
tieth year. Little is known of his experiences during this period, 
although his name frequently appears on the records among other 
townsmen who did valiant service for their country. He was called 
upon and served eighteen days on the 

Lexington Alarm 

With men of Killingly 

In Captain John Green's Company 

Lieut. Obadiah Clough 

Ensign Daniel Larned. 

The next month, May 9, 1775, he enlisted and served until December 
14. 1775- i n the 

Third Continental Regiment 

General Israel Putnam (1775) 

Colonel Israel Putnam 

In Captain Joseph Elliot's 8th Company. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 97 

The following" year, on September 14/1776, he marched to West 
Chester in the 

Eleventh Regiment Connecticut Militia (i//6) 
Colonel Ebenezer Williams (Pomfret) 
In Captain John Green's Company 
Ensign Daniel Larned, 

Ensign Daniel Larned being a neighbor. 

On February 17, 1778, he enlisted for three years in 

Colonel John Crane's Artillery ( 1 y/S ) 
Captain William Sizer's Company. 

Family tradition states that he once drove a patrol wagon. Once 
when lying with seven others around a camp fire, a passing cannon 
ball took off the heads from four of the men, leaving the others 
unharmed. He received an honorable discharge at the close of the 
conflict and returned home, and became a school teacher of excellent 
reputation, being known as Master Green, throughout the section. 

He married, in 1799, Lydia Graves, and to them were born eight 
sons and daughters. His closing days were spent upon a little farm 
in Thompson, where he died. June 28, 182(1, and was buried in a 
small neighborhood cemetery in East Thompson. Xo stone marks 
the spot. 

His daughter Hannah, fifth in order of birth among the eight 
children, and eighteen years of age at the time of her father's 
death, is the sole survivor of the family. Her life has been chiefly 
passed in Thompson. She occupies to-day, with two daughters, the 
same house she entered, seventy-two years ago, as the bride of Ithiel 
Robbins, to whom she was married November S, 1829. She has 
borne twelve children, most of whom are living. Her husband died 
January 28, 1883. She is of rather small stature, and looks younger 
than her ninety-four years. Her faculties of mind and body are 
well retained. She is a deeply religious woman, and has been 
connected with the Methodist Church since her girlhood. She 
inherits longevity. An aunt lived to the age of one hundred and 
seven. Mrs. Robbins joined the National Society October, [901. 
Her national number is 36611. She is among the last of patriots' 



98 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

daughters to join from Connecticut, and there are only a few later 
enrollments in the National Society from other states. 

The children of Joseph Green and Lydia (Graves) Green, his 
wife, were : 

Russell, b. 1S00; m. Sallie Whitmore; d. 1876. 

Timothy. 1). 1802; m. Esther Houghton. 

Nancy, 1). 1S04; 111. Joseph Harrenton. 

John, b. 1806; m. Maranda Wood; d. 1861. 

Hannah, b. 1808; m. Ithiel Robbins. 

Daniel j . • ( b. 1810: 111. Maranda Talbot; d. 1881. 
I twins, - 

Lydia \ ' b. 1810; m. Jesse Dexter; d. 1900. 

Kendal, b. 1812; m. Mary Payne; d. 1841. 

The children of Hannah (Green) Robbins and Ithiel Robbins 
(born February 6, 1804) are as follows: 

David Nelson, b. April 15, 1831 ; m. Elisabeth Joslyn. 
Joseph G., b. July 30, 1832; d. Oct. 29, 1833. 
Elmira J., b. Jan. 28, 1834; d. July 28. 1843. 

Elisabeth L., b. July 28. 1835; m. 1st, Zadoc Robbins; 2d, Stephen Robbins. 
Mary Ann, b. Feb. 20. 1837 ; d. Jan. 19, 1840. 
Phebe K.. b. March 13, 1838; m. Luther Jacobs. 
John YV., b. Aug. 9, 1841 ; m. Adaline Robbins. 
.Mary Emily, b. June 8, 1843; d. Sept. 3, 1843. 
Luther D., b. Oct. 3, 1844; m. Mary Stearns. 
Julia A., b. March 16, 1X47. 
Hannah T., b. Oct. 11, 1848. 

Ithiel 1).. b. Feb. 15, 1X53; m. Flora B. Caswel ; d. in Milllmry. Mass., April 
2. 1 903. 

Helen Manning Kent. 

I MKs. JOHN BRYDEN KENT.) 



Authority: Conn. Men in the Revolution, pp. 14, 57. 291. 462. 



Elisabeth Clarke Ibull Chapter 



ANSOINIA 



2>augbter 



of 



patriot 



MINERVA (BLAKE) HOWLAND 



SILAS BALDWIN 

—Surgeon 

REUBEN BLAKE 



Emma Ifoart Millarb Chapter 



BERLIN AND KENSINGTON 



5>auc?bter 



of 



patriot 



EMILY (SAVAGE- ROYS 



LIEUTENANT ELISHA SAVAGE 
SELAH SAVAGE 
SETH SAVAGE 



LofC. 




MINERVA (BLAKE) HOWLAND. 



MINERVA (BLAKE) HOWLAND 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILIES 
BALDWIN— BLAKE 




O center of activity among Connecticut towns during the 
Revolution was more vigorous than Derby. Companies 
were formed at the first breath of alarm, and, during the 
long siege, recruits poured in until old and young were 
engaged either abroad or at home in the mighty struggle. 

Reuben Blake, a boy of thirteen, born in 1765, enlisted in 1778, 
in a company recruited in Derby, under 

Captain David Humphreys 

Sixth Regiment, "Connecticut Line" 

(Formation of 1 777-1781) 

Commanded by Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs. 

During the summer of 1778, the regiment encamped, with the 
main army under Washington, at White Plains, and wintered in 
1778 and 1779 at Redding. In the operations of 1779. the regiment 
served with the Connecticut Division on the east side of the Hudson 
in Colonel Heath's wing, and wintered in 1779 and 1780 at Morris- 
town Huts, Xew Jersey. In the movement of 1780 the regiment 
served with the division on both sides of the Hudson. 

On the discovery of Arnold's treason. Colonel Meigs' regiment 
was ordered, with other troops, to repair directly to West Point, in 
anticipation of the advance of the enemy. The following winter 
was passed at camp "Connecticut Milage." near the Robinson 
House, opposite West Point. There the regiment was consolidated 
for the formation of 1781-1783. After this formation. Reuben 
Blake's name is enrolled in the 

Fourth Regiment. "Connecticut Line" 

Colonel Zebulon Butler 

Captain David Humphreys. 



102 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

His entire service during the Revolution covered four years, dur- 
ing which he received a severe wound in his knee, which resulted 
in permanent lameness. At the close of the war. he returned to 
Derby and became a sea captain in trade with the West Indies. This 
profitable employment was much in favor with the inhabitants of 
Derby, ships then entering the broad Housatonic without obstruc- 
tion by the bar at Stratford. 

Reuben Blake married Eunice Baldwin, daughter of Doctor Silas 
Baldwin of Derby, who served as a surgeon during the Revolution, 
and is recorded in April, i//8, as taking the oath of fidelity in 
Derby. After the Revolution Dr. Baldwin removed to Woodbridge. 
The children of Doctor Silas Baldwin and Alary Plumb, his wife, 
were : 

Zuriel, 1). Jan. 6, 1758. Sarah, 1). ; d. Jan. I, 1774. 

James., 1>. Dec. 1, 1763. Silas, b. Aug. 25. 1774. 

Hannah, 1). March 10, 1766. Sarah, b. Feb. 4, 1780. 

Eunice, 1>. Nov. 12, 1768. Deborah, b. Aug. 22, 17S2. 
Jesse, b. Feb. 15, 1771. 

Reuben Blake and Eunice Baldwin, his wife, had nine children, 
all of whom married except Silas. They were : 

Silas. Sally, m. Parrott. 

Harriet, m. — — Shipman. Minerva, m. William Howland. 

Harpin. Reuben. 

Polly, m. — — Seeley. Eliza. 111. — — Morris. 

Isaac. 

( )n .March 26, 1818, while living in Derby, Reuben Blake applied 
for a pension, which was granted. Some years later, he removed, 
with his family, to Bridgeport, Conn., where his death occurred in 
[836. His widow survived him about ten years and received the 
pension. 

.Minerva ['.lake, born in Derby, February 9, 1804, married about 
1825. William [lowland, who came from Massachusetts and settled 
in Bridgeport, Conn. Their seven children were: 

1 r] ORGE, 1). [825 ; (1. 1850. 

M \ktiia, b. [828; 111. Davis; d. 1896. 

Ann Eliza, b. 1S30; m. Blakeslee. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 103 

Mary, b. 1834; m. Mason; d. 1896. 

Harriet, b. 1835 ; m. Foster ; d. 1882. 

Emily, b. 1836; m. Haywood; d. 1872. 

FrANCESj 1). 1845; 111. William Dibble. 

Airs. 1 lowland outlived her husband more than fifty years. She 
resided in New Haven during the greater part of seventy-four years. 
Her life was spent in faithful, earnest activity for the support of 
her large family. During many years of widowhood, Mrs. How- 
land was employed as a nurse. 

She was a faithful member of Trinity Church and a devoted and 
regular attendant for nearly three-quarters of a century. Her mem- 
ory was remarkably retentive. In the prime of life she could repeat 
almost the whole of a sermon to which she had listened. Her facul- 
ties -remained clear until the last few years of her life, when failing 
sight resulted in total blindness and increased the infirmities of 
old age. To visit her was to gain a fresh impulse of faith and 
courage and a renewed respect for her sterling character. 

Her recollections were vivid of her father, who never tired of 
relating the stirring events of the Revolution, a visible reminder of 
which he ever after carried in his lame knee. He was a resident of 
Upper Derby, now Ansonia, during the Revolution, and relatives 
and several grandchildren live in Ansonia. 

For this reason Mrs. Howland became a member of the Eliza- 
beth Clarke Hull Chapter, Ansonia, in May, [898. The gold 
teaspoon, gift of the National Society, she received with great 
pleasure, even though she could not see the design. Connection 
with the Society of Daughters of the American Revolution proved 
indirectly the comfort of her declining years. Her ninety-sixth 
birthday, on February 9, 1900, was remembered by several friends. 
She was bright and very appreciative of the attention shown her. 
Five days later she passed away. Gently her useful life, aim* >st 
a century long, came to a close. 

Mary Josephine Clark. 

(MRS. WILLIAM I. 1 I VRK.) 

Authority: Conn. Men in the Revolution, pp. 341, 633. Bureau of Pensions, 

Department of the Interior. History of Derby, pp. 18". 694. 




EMILY (SAVAGE) ROYS. 
(From a photograph taken when Mrs. Roys was about seventy years old.) 



EMILY (SAVAGE) ROYS 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILY— SAVAGE 




HE Emma Hart Willard Chapter, Berlin and Kensington, 
has been favored in numbering among its members Mrs. 
Emily ( Savage) Roys, who derived her right to be a 
H Daughter of the American Revolution through the ser- 
vice of both her father, Selah Savage, and her grandfather, Elisha 
Savage. 

Among the Connecticut men of the Revolution whose names have 
been found upon rolls and records, are seventeen bearing the name 
of Savage. With one exception all are accredited to territory 
adjacent to Berlin, which would indicate that they all sprang from 
the first early settler in Berlin of this name. 

Elisha Savage was one of the pioneer settlers of Savage Hill in 
East Berlin. He was a member of the Colonial Militia before the 
Revolution and was ordered out with his company in the spring 
of 1777 f° r s ' x weeks" service at Peekskill. He held the rank of 
second Lieutenant in 

Brigadier-General Erastus Wolcott's Brigade 

Colonel Thomas Belden's Regiment 

Captain Tared Shepherd's Company 

Second Lieutenant Elisha Savage. 

His service began on March 29, 1777, and continued during seven 
weeks, when it was terminated by the discharge of his company 
on May lyth of the same year.* 

His son, Selah Savage, the father of Mrs. Roys, was born January 
9th, 1759, and when the Lexington Alarm aroused the villages of 
Eastern Connecticut, though barely past his fifteenth year, he enlisted 

* Conn. Men in the Revolution, p. 406. 



Io6 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

on May 10. 1775. in the 4th Company of the Second Regiment 
commanded by 

General Joseph Spencer (East Haddam ) 
Captain and Major Return Jonathan Meig's (Middletown), 

with his own brother, Seth Savage and other soldiers* from Berlin, 
then a part of Farmington. He marched to Boston, served during 
the siege of that city and was in the hattle of Bunker Hill. From 
this term of service he was discharged on December 9, 1775. 
\o record of his re-enlistment is found in "Connecticut Men of the 
Revolution," but he received a pension under act of Congress grant- 
ing pensions to all soldiers who had served two years. His descend- 
ants have personal knowledge of this pension and also of his service 
near White Plains, X. Y. and Horse Neck, Conn. General Spencer's 
Regiment was reorganized under Colonel Samuel Wyllys, as the 
Twenty-second Connecticut, but the rolls of private soldiers are 
missing, which fact doubtless accounts for the absence of any record 
of his re-enlistment. 

Selah Savage died April 15, 1846, aged eighty-seven years. His 
grandchildren remember well his excited appearance, when, bran- 
dishing his cane, which advancing years had made his necessary com- 
panion, he recalled his fighting days; but they remember little of 
the detail of his stories. He described the burying of the killed at 
White Plains — how they were piled in trenches and covered with 
earth so shallow, that often a hand or a foot was seen protruding 
above the surface. 

On visits with his grandchildren to Greenwich, Connecticut, he 
often pointed out an old house in which he said he had been quar- 
tered at one time during the Revolutionary War, and showed them 
the old-fashioned double front door where holes, which tradition 
says were made by cannon balls, had been filled in with wood. 

Selah Savage married for his first wife, Elizabeth Porter, who was 
born March 12, 1760; the date of her marriage is not known. She 
died April [9, 1805. For his second wife, he married on April 30, 
[806, widow Roxy (Galpin) Deming. The children of these mar- 
riages wire, by the first wife, Elizabeth (Porter) Savage: 

Conn Men in the Revolution, pp. 48, (1^2. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 107 

Jamin. b. Oct. 22, 1784; m. (1) Polly Dunham, (2) Emily Hollister Strick- 
land ; d. March 23. 1X55. 

Betsey, b. June 27. 17X7; m. Benjamin Wilcox; d. Jan. 28, 1831. 

Laura, b. Sept. 21, 1789; m. ( 1 ) Noah Smith, (2) Richard Wilcox; d. Jan. 4, 
[864. 

By the second wife, Roxy (Galpin) Deming Savage: 

Selah. b. Jan. 15, 1807; m. Sarah M. Mead; d. Jan. 13, 1894. 
Benjamin, b. May 25. 1809; m. Sophia Hovey; d. Oct. 30, 1869. 
Emily, b. Dec. 3, 1811 ; m. Franklin Roys; d. Sept. 2, 1890. Franklin Roys 
died Dec. 12, 1883. 

His youngest (laughter, Emily (Savage) Roys, the subject of this 
sketch, became a member of the Emma Hart YVillarcl Chapter in 
[896, a few months before her death, at the age of eighty-four. Mrs. 
Roys was a woman of lovely character, active in labors for her 
family and her friends, especially ready with sympathy and help 
for those who were sick or in trouble, a model home maker, warm- 
hearted and hospitable. Even in later years of suffering, she was 
still forgetful of self and thoughtful for those about her. 

She married in 1830, Franklin Roys, a native of Southington, 
and removed to Greenwich, Connecticut, which was her home for 
about ten Years. The family then came to East Berlin, where 
Mr. Roys was for many years a prominent manufacturer. In 1876, 
about seven Years before his death, he moved to Berlin Center and 
the family have since occupied the same house. 

Mrs. Roys survived her husband thirteen years. Their children 
were: Charles Augustus, Julia Maria, Sarah Mead, Emily Louisa, 
George Franklin, Harriet Allene. Two, Emily Louisa and George 
Franklin, died when about fifteen years of age. Charles Augustus, 
the oldest, was born July 10. [832 : married April 2(), 1857, Elizabeth 
Sturgis Mead; died Jul) 20. [900. He had four children, three 
of whom are now living. 

Three daughters reside in Berlin, and with them Mrs. Roys lived 
after the death of her husband, sheltered from every care and 
trouble. She died September 2, 1896, beloved by all who knew her. 

The patriotic quality of the family, so plainly manifest by its ser- 
vice during the Revolution, showed itself again, when at the begin- 
ning of the Civil War, the oldest and only living son of Mrs. Roys 



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PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



enlisted among the first quota of soldiers from Berlin. He served 
practically throughout the war, and only escaped imprisonment with 
his regiment, the Sixteenth Connecticut, from the fact that he was 
then ill in hospital. 

Lydia Sessions Woodworth. 

(mrs. w. w. woodworth.) 

Clara E. Bidwell 

Alice Norton. 




jfannic %eb\>arb Chapter 

MYSTiC 

Saucibters of patriots 

ABBYLINE (TIFT) STARR SOLOMON TIFT 

HUBBARD BURROWS 

— Captain 

ELISHA BURROWS 



NANCY LORD (WHEELER; STANTON ^ ISAAC WHEELER 

— Lieutenant 



MARY ANN WHEELER 

\ ISAAC WHEELER, JUNIOR 
/ — Fifer 




SOLOMON TIFT — PATRIOT. 



ABBYLINE (TIFT) STARR 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILIES 
BURROWS— TIFT 




OLOMON TIFT was born in South Kingston, Rhode 
Island, May 28, 1758, the son of Joseph and Lucy 
(Brewster) Tift. In May, 1776, he was a private in 
the " Kingstown Reds," an independent company of 
South Kingston. In March, 1777, he enlisted for three months 
in an independent company attached to 

Colonel John Gardner's Regiment. 
In July, 1778, he enlisted again, being still a resident of South 
Kingston, R. I., as private in 

Colonel John Topham's Regiment 
Captain Benjamin West's Company. 

His pension papers say that he was in the Battle of Rhode Island 
at Butt's Hill, August 29, 1778, of which battle it is said, "Of the 
5,000 Americans engaged, only 1500 had ever been in action before. 
They were opposed by veteran troops, superior in number and in 
discipline. These facts justify the comment (ascribed to Lafayette) 
that 'the Battle of Rhode Island was the best fought action of the 
War.' " Solomon Tift was at the Battle of Groton Heights in the 
defense of Fort Griswold, September 6, 1781, and as all family tradi- 
tions* say that Solomon Tift "served on the water." it is believed 

* His grandson, Air. Ezra Briggs, of Volnntown, Conn., writes, "he served 
a portion of the time on an American Privateer. As one of a prize crew he 
was placed on board of a captured vessel. This vessel was recaptured by 
the British, hut Mr. Tift was released in time to take part in the Fort (iris- 
wold fight." 

His daughter, Mrs. Sally Capwell, in a letter written June 24, 1881, says 
her father "served on the water, was taken prisoner by the British and con- 
fined for a long time on the 'old Jersey' Prison ship near New York and had 
the yellow fever while there." 



112 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

that he was in a ship in the harbor of New London, and volunteered 
for the defense of the fort, as did man}' others. His name in the 
list of killed at Fort Griswold in the Connecticut Gazette of Septem- 
ber 2J, 1781, is of course a mistake, as he lived many years after. 
He was taken prisoner, carried to New York and confined on board 
the prison ship Jersey, at Wallabout. A grandson* writes, "I well 
remember grandfather Tift's statement of the sufferings of himself 
and other prisoners on the prison ship." Here he contracted ship 
fever and narrowly escaped death. His daughter, Mrs. Abbyline 
Starr, once wrote that her father being very ill of fever, his brother- 
in-law. Rev. Silas Burrows, and a sister, went to New York and with 
great difficulty secured his release from the ship prison and brought 
him home to Poquonoc. Solomon Tift told his descendants that as 
he was carried from the ship, being very ill, he heard a British officer 
remark, that the fellow was "as good as dead" and Solomon Tift 
determined that he would not die. He often told his grandchildren 
of his experiences, replying once to the question whether he had 
any meat to eat, "( )h yes, my child, when an old horse or mule 
died we had some." 

The same grandsonf wrote, July 21, 1881, "I give you the fol- 
lowing facts obtained from grandfather Tift. He was in the fort 
and participated in the battle at Fort Griswold, was taken prisoner, 
and confined in the prison ship at New York. Grandmother Tift 
went to the fort immediately after the battle and examined the dead 
to see if her husband was among them. I remember her description 
of the dead, they looked as natural as in sleep." Solomon Tift's 
daughter, Mrs. Mary (Tift) Briggs, told her son that her mother, 
Eunice ( Burrows) Tift, went to the fort the morning after the battle 
to search for those dear to her. Her brother, Captain Hubbard 
Burrows, was among the slain. Another brother, Elisha Burrows, 
was wounded in the neck at the battle of Bunker Hill. 

Solomon Tift's name appears in October, 1785, in a list of creditors 
of the State of Rbode Island for depreciation of value in currency. 

Solomon Tift married December 2, 1779, Eunice, daughter of 
Amos and Elizabeth (Rathbone) Burrows. She was born at Fort 

* Hon. Nelson Tift, Albany, Georgia, letter dated 1881. 
fHon. Nelson Tift, Albany. Georgia. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 113 

Hill, near Mystic, Conn., in 1760. Their first child, Betsey, was 
born August 5, 1780, and was therefore over a year old when the 
attack on Fort Griswold occurred. 

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Tift was in Poquonoc. Here 
thirteen children were born to them. In 1809 Mr. Tift united with 




SOLOMON TIFT S REVOLUTIONARY SWORD. 
(Property of his great-grandson. Nelson F. Tift of Albany. Georgia.) 

the Fort Hill Church (Second Baptist of Groton), of which his 
brother-in-law, the Rev. Silas Burrows, was the first pastor. Mrs. 
Tift died October 10, 1825. Solomon Tift survived his wife twenty- 
five years. His last years were spent in the home of his daughter* 

* Mrs. Eunice Crumb. 



114 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

at < )ld Mystic, Conn. His was the last Revolutionary pension paid 
out in Groton. He died December 2, 1850, and with his wife is 
buried* in the old Packer cemetery at Mystic. The children of 
Solomon Tift and of his wife Eunice ( Burrows) Tift were: 

Betsey, b. Aug. 5, 1780; m. John Benhani (b. 1786; d. 1859) ; d. Nov. 1, 1877. 

Lived in New London. Conn. 
Joseph Burrows, b. Oct. 9, 1782; m. Rebecca A. Braman (b. Jan. 21, 1790) ; 

d. in Florida. 
Amos, b. May 19, 1784; m. April 24, 1806, Hannah Forsythe (b. Sept. 18. 

1785; d. April 8, 1878, Mystic, Conn.) ; d. Aug. 15, 1829. 

Solomon, b. Sept. 4. 1786; m. Mary Ann ; d. in Charleston, S. C. 

Eunice Burrows, b. April 17, 1788; m. Joseph Crumb (who d. Sept. 5, 1854, 

aged 73) ; d. April 5, 1861, in Old Mystic, Conn. 
Lydia, b. May 14, 1790; m. 1808, David Lewis ( b. July 12, 1786; d. Nov. 9, 

1N13) ; d. Jan. 16, 1840, near Fort Hill, Groton, Conn. 
Mary, b. May 13, 1792; m. Dec. 22, 1816, Wanton Briggs (b. in Phenix, R. L, 

Oct. 5, T788; d. March 27, 1849) ; d. July 9, 1866, in Voluntown, Conn. 
Lucy, b. Nov. 8, 1794; m. (1) — — Spaulding, (2) Champlin Dewey. 
Sally, b. Jan. 4, 1796; in. Eseck Capwell, Coventry, R. I.; d. 1884. 
Nancy, b. April 0. 1798; m. William Capwell, Coventry, R. I. 
Phebe, b. May 5, 1800; m. Aug. 26, 1821, Samuel Chipman, New London; d 

Dec. 3, 1863. 
Abbv, b. Sept. 25. 1803; d. March 21, 1805. 
Abbyline, b. .March 7, 1S06; m. Nov. 29, 1829, Nicholas Starr (b. May 13, 1801 ; 

d. Nov. 15, 1868, Cortland, N. Y.) ; d. Dec. 20, 1901. 

Joseph, oldest son of Solomon Tift, was a hero of the ship Con- 
stitution, "( )ld Ironsides." in the war of 18 12, taking part in her 
1 tattles with the Guerrierre and Java. Upon one occasion as master 
of guns, he fired an unauthorized shot, cutting off a mast of the 
enemy's ship — his superior's only reproof being "Well, you have 
made a schooner of her !" 

Abbyline, youngest child of Solomon and Eunice Tift, was born 
and spent her early life in Groton. Here she married Nicholas 
Starr. Jr., November 29, 1829. In the fall of 1832 they moved to 
Homer, New York, where Mr. Starr died in 1867. Five children 
were born to them, four of whom reached maturity. The last 
sixteen years of Mrs. Starr's life were passed with her oldest son, 

* A bronze marker has been placed on the grave of Solomon Tift by the 
Sims of the American Revolution. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 115 

in Courtland, New York, where she died December 20, 190T, aged 
ninety-five years, nine months and twelve days. In August, 1897, 
she became an honorary member of the Fanny Ledyard Chapter of 
Mystic, formerly a part of the old town of Groton, Connecticut. 

The children of Airs. Abbyline (Tift) Starr and of Nicholas Starr 
were : 

Mary Elizabeth, b. May 14, 1831 ; m. Hiram D. Corey; d. Sept. 5, 1885. 

Nicholas, b. April 13, 1833; m. Oct. 9, 1859, Permelia Corey. 

Thomas, b. Feb. 27, 1839; d. in one month. 

Thomas, b. Feb. 15, 1840. Unmarried. 

Benjamin, b. Feb. 25, 1843; d. April 13, 1862, in the hospital at Fortress 
Monroe, Va., having enlisted during the Civil War in the 44th New 
York Regulars, known as the "Ellsworth Avengers." 

Emma Avery Simmons. 

(MRS. A. II. SIMMONS. I 

Authorities: Revolutionary defences of Rhode Island, p. 115. 
Spirit of '76 in Rhode Island, p. 82. 
Rhode Island Historical Tracts No. 6, p. 28. 
Story of Fort Griswold, by Charles Allyn, p. 272. 
Conn. Men in the War of the American Revolution, pp. ^, (155, 

661. 
Application for pension on record in Washington. 
Family letters and family tradition preserved by Hon. Nelson 

Tift of Albany. Georgia, and Mrs. Mary (Tift) Briggs. 

Thanks are due to Mrs. F. B. Moser of New York and to 

Miss Elizabeth Corey for assistance in preparing this sketch. 




NANCY LORD (WHEELER) STANTON. 
(From a photograph taken in 1895 when Mrs. Stanton was S4 years old.) 



NANCY LORD (WHEELER) STANTON 
MARY ANN WHEELER 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILY— WHEELER 




T the outbreak of the Revolution, Isaac Wheeler, then 
about twenty-nine years old, enlisted ( May 9, 1775). 
Lie was the son of Isaac Wheeler, and was born Novem- 
ber 26, T746. He served first as a private in 

Colonel David Waterbury's Regiment, the Fifth Connecticut 
Captain Joseph Smith, 8th Company. 

He was at the siege of St. Johns in October, and was discharged 
November 11, 1775. at which time many of the men left on account 
of illness. He re-enlisted, and in 1776 was stationed at Newport, 
Rhode Island, under the command of 

Colonel Harry Babcock. 

Here he took with him into the service his two slaves, Enoch and 
Caesar, and his eldest son, Isaac, eight years old. He was in the 
battle of the Brandywine, and was made a Lieutenant. 

His little son, Isaac Wheeler, Jr. (born June 8, 1768), acted as 
fifer in 177^ in the same company with his father. At Newport 
(Jamestown), he contracted cam]) fever, and was brought on horse- 
back to his home in Stonington on a pillow supported in the arms 
of his father. The following is the leave of absence and passport 
granted to Isaac Wheeler and his son, the boy fifer: 

Headquarters, Jamestuwn. March m. 177'' 
Mr fsaac Wheeler is permitted to go off this island to return in twenty days 
from this date, his son Isaac likewise till he is able to return into the service 
on account of his health. 

Christopher Lippitt. 



Il8 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Isaac Wheeler, the fifer, when an aged man, recalled his great 
desire as a bov for a uniform, relating that he refused to play on 
his rife until he could have one. Accordingly, his father employed 
a shoemaker in Newport to make a pair of red topped high boots 
for him, telling him that this was the uniform for boy fifers. His 
pleasure in possessing the boots made him willing to resume his 
duties. He became a great favorite with the members of his father's 
company; they taught him to dance, and to sing their camp songs, 
which ever remained fresh in his memory, one of which his daughter 
n< >w recalls 

"I have been beat and I have been banged, 
And all for desertion ; 
If ever I enlist for a soldier again 
The devil may be my surgeon." 

In the retreat from Newport he was brought off the island on the 
back of Jim Freeman, an Indian of the Charlestown (Narragansett) 
tribe, who in after years made annual visits to see the boy he had 
saved. Near the close of the war, being large for his age, he 
engaged in privateering. The vessel on which he served was taken 
by the English, but was retaken by a vessel of the French fleet 
under Count de Grasse, carried into Chesapeake Bay and there 
released. He saw the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, 
and was discharged at the head of the Elk River in Maryland. 
From there he journeyed, footsore, ill, and weary, to his father's 
home in Connecticut. 

He attended private schools, where, under the teaching of the 
noted master, Niles, and others, he acquired a good education, par- 
ticularly in grammar, mathematics, and penmanship. Even when 
past middle age he had a fine voice, and evoked sweet music from 
his fife; and. notwithstanding his great weight, was a graceful 
dancer. 

He married first, March 20, 1790, Hannah, daughter of Captain 
John and Martha ( Stanton) Holmes. She died in 1808; he married 
second, March, 1810, Olive Burdick, born August 25, 1786. He 
was the father of eighteen children. 

The children of Isaac Wheeler, Jr.. by his first marriage to Hannah 
Holmes, were : 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 119 

Hannah, b. June 4. 1791 ; in. William Wright; no children. 

Isaac, b. Sept. 25, 1793; d. after 1861 ; unmarried. 

John Holmes, b. Nov. 6, 1795; m. Esther Buddington of Groton, Conn.; d. 

Dec. 21, 1867. 
George Washington, b. Jan. 23, 1798; m. Eliza Baldwin of No. Stonington. 
Pitts Stanton, b. April 7, [802; m. Rebecca Roberts of New London; d. 

March 8, 1873. 
Homer Holmes, b. Nov. 27. [803; m. (i) Mary Ann Roberts, (2) Luretta 

Jeffereys, (3) Augusta Miner, (_|) Frances S. Wheeler; d. in 1882. 
Martha Ann, b. Oct. 1, 1805; m. Henry Stanton Burdick; d. May 22, 1890. 

Children by his second marriage to Olive Burdick : 

Nancy Lord, b. Jan. 3; 181 1; m. Samuel Stanton; d. Dec. 22, 1896. 

Thomas Jefferson, b. Jan. 29. 1812; m. (1) Amelia Chesebrough, (2) Sophia 

P. Chesebrough, (3) Almira Phelps, (4) Mary (Denison) Collins; d. 

Sept. 2 j,, 1804. 
Elizabeth Denison, b. Oct. 20, 1813; m. Stephen F. Nye; d. July 21, i860. 
Stiles Denison, b. Mar. 13. 1815; m. Sarah Elizabeth Briggs; d. Aug. 29, 

1884. 
Calvin, b, Oct. 21, 1816; d. young. 

Harriet Sophia, b. Sept. 12, 1817; d. June 18, 1834; unmarried. 
William Nelson, b. March n, 1819 ; m. Susan Wilcox; d. March 21, 1895. 
Mary Ann, b. Nov. 19, 1820; d. Sept. 24, 1903. 

Emily M., b. Sept. 2, 1822; m. Thomas W. Holmes; d. June 13, 1884. 
Sarah Maria, b. April 3. 1824; m. Samuel Walter Bidwell ; d. March 6, 1858. 
Frances A., b. Feb. 28, 1826; m. Robert R. Mattison; d. July 12. 1847. 

When in August, 1814, Stonington was bombarded by the British 
fleet. Isaac Wheeler. Jr..* and his brother Charles P. Wheeler. 
were among the defenders. The latter received a pension. Another 
brother, Noyes Wheeler, served at about the same period for several 
years on board a man-of-war. 

Isaac, eldest son of Isaac Wheeler, Jr., born September 25, 1793. 
was a sergeant in Captain Dennison Noyes' Company, Thirtieth 
Regiment. Conn. Militia, in the attack on Stonington (1814). He 
also served in the regular army on the frontier. j 

Nancy Lord ( Wheeler ) Stanton, the oldest child of Isaac Wheeler, 
Jr., by his second wife, ( Hive Burdick, was born in Wequetequock, 
in the town of Stonington, Conn., January 3, 1811. She was mar- 

* Late in life Isaac Wheeler. Jr.. applied for a pension, but owing to the 
default of the person to whom he entrusted his papers lie failed to obtain one. 

t Elizabeth D. Nye, tenth child of Isaac Wheeler. Jr.. had three sons who 
served in the Civil War. Her husband had two brothers and a nephew who 
also served, the largest number enlisting from any one family in Stonington. 



PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



ried December 29, 183 1, to Samuel Stanton, 3d, who was born 
( )ctober 15, 1807, and died March 21, 1889. They had two children : 
George Samuel, born September 28, 1832, and accidentally killed in 
Xew York harbor, December 14, 1852; and Harriet A., who mar- 
ried Henry C. Stanton, July 9, 1876. 



»Wr»^@f<«^$iM«^^<«^^4^l9/«^«»(«^^^« 




MARY ANN WHEELER. 
(From a daguerreotype taken about 1852.) 

Brought up in the time of household economy and industry, Mrs. 
Nancy Stanton took a deep interest in all kinds of domestic work. 
She wove beautiful cloth, and when eighty years of age she wove 
a piece of smooth and even rag carpet, forty yards long. 

In 1895 the Fanny Ledyard Chapter made her an honorary mem- 
ber. Mrs. Stanton resided continuously in one locality for seventy- 
six years. She died December 22, 1896, aged eighty-five years. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 121 

Mary Ann Wheeler, who lived in Stonington, was elected to 
membership in the Fanny Ledyard Chapter in May, 1898. The 
fifteenth child of Isaac Wheeler, Jr., by his second wife. < Hive Burdick 
\\ heeler, she was horn November 19. 1820. She resided for several 
years with her brother* in Xew London, and also with her sisterf 
in Hartford — returning- to the old home at the call of duty. A 
faithful friend and a devoted daughter — she was held in high 
esteem by all who knew her. She lived for five years after her 
election to membership in the Chapter, and although she was never 
able to attend the meetings, she greatly enjoyed the members' visits 
to her. Her mind remained unclouded to the last. She died 
September 24, 1903, in the eighty-third year of her age. 

These two sisters are descendants of Thomas Wheeler, who settled 
in Stonington in 1664, the following being the Wheeler genealogy: 

Thomas Wheeler, b. 1602. came with his wife Mary from England to Lynn. 
Mass.. in 1635 ; made freeman 1642 ; removed to Stonington, Conn., 
1664. Largest land owner in township, active in organizing "town 
plat" and laying out ministry land. Among founders of first church, 
1674. Made freeman Conn. 1669, elected selectman and deputy and held 
other town offices. Died March 4, 1688. Buried at Whitehall. 

Isaac, 1st, b. 1646, inherited estate of father; m. Martha, dan. Thomas and 
Dorothy (Thompson) Parke, and granddau. Sir Robert Parke of Pres- 
ton, Eng. — a settler of Wetherstield. Conn., in 1640. 
Isaac d. Jan. 5. 1712. Martha d. Feb. 15, 1716, aged 70 years. They had four 
sons and six daughters. 

Isaac. 2d, b. Aug 6, 1673; built and occupied homestead on Tongwonk Hill; 
m. Mary. dan. Rev. Jeremiah and Mary (Wainwright) Shepherd of 
Lynn, .Mass. ; granddau. Rev. Thomas and Margaret ( Borodell ) Shep- 
herd of Cambridge. 
Isaac d. Jan. 26, 1739. Mary d. Sept. 6, 1761. They had two children. 

Captain Thomas, b. Eel). 15. 1700; m. Alary, dau. Capt. Ephraim, Jr.. and 
Mary (Stevens) Miner; granddau. Capt. Ephraim ami Hannah (Avery) 
Miner; great-granddau. Capt. Thomas and Grace (Palmer) Miner; 
descendant of Walter Palmer and Capt. James Avery. 
Captain Thomas Wheeler d. Oct. 23. 1755 ; Mary d. July 28, 1750. They had 
eleven children. 

* Homer Wheeler. Esq. 

f Mrs. Sarah Maria (Wheeler) Bidwell. 



122 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Isaac 3d, b. Feb. 12, 1724; m. Bridget, dau. Capt. Thomas and Elizabeth* 
(Sanford) Noyes ; granddau. Rev. James Noyes (first settled minister 
Stonington, and a founder of Yale College), and Dorothy (Stanton) 
Noyes ; great-granddau. Rev. James Noyes of Newbury, Mass., whose 
father, Rev. William Noyes, was rector of diocese of Salisbury, Eng. 
Isaac Wheeler was accidentally drowned in an ineffectual attempt to rescue 
his slave. May 26, 1747. His only son, 

Lieut. Isaac, 4th, b. Nov. 26, 1746, inherited by his grandfather's will the 
homestead of his grandparents at Tongwonk Hill; m. Dec. 31, 1765, 
Ruth, dau. Timothy and Mary (Smith — descendant Nehemiah of 
Groton) Swan, granddau. Capt. John and Susannah (Eastman) Swan, 
residents during Indian wars of Haverhill, Mass. (See History of 
Haverhill for romantic incident.) Descendant Richard Swan, early 
settler at Rowley, Mass. 
Lieut. Isaac d. Dec. 31, 1831. Ruth d. Dec. 6, 1834. 

Isaac, 5th, b. June 6, 1768; m. (1) March, 1790, Hannah, dau. Capt. John 
Holmes, (2) March, 1810, Olive, dau. Elnathan and Anne (Sisson) Bur- 
dick. Olive Burdick was a descendant of Robert Burdick, one of the 
first three founders of Westerly, R. I. (His wife was Ruth, dau. Samuel 
and Tacy (Cooper) Hubbard, among founders Seventh Day Baptist 
Church in America. See Mag. of New England History for July. 1891.) 
Olive Burdick was a descendant also of Joseph Clark of the regular 
Baptist Church at Newport ; of John Reynolds of Weymouth, Mass., 
and Stonington, Conn. ; and of Richard Sisson, first of the name at 
Portsmouth. R. I. 
Isaac, 5th, d. May 11, 1856; 1st wife Hannah d. in 1808; 2d wife Olive d. 
Dec. 8, 1873. 

Harriet A. Stanton. 

(MRS. HENRY C. STANTON.) 

* For Elizabeth Sanford's ancestry see Noyes Genealogy, Martha Babcock 
(Noyes) Noyes Sketch, Anna Warner Bailey Chapter. 



jfatth Trumbull (Chapter 



NORWICH 



2>augbters ot patriots 

CAROLINE WAY) CLARK ELISHA WAY 

— Lieutenant 

LYDIA WHEELER ^MOORE) HOLDEN DAVID MOORE 

— Sergeant 

SILAS MOORE 



THE MEN OF '76. 

By Rev. F. Denison. 

Our fathers fired the sunrise gun 
Of freedom, sounding our release, 

Predestined through all lands to run, 
The harbinger of world-wide peace. 

From Bunker Hill to Eutaw Springs. 

Was lit Law's Independent blaze; 
And still the song of Freedom rings. 

As in the old heroic days. 

This western world was given them, 
From mountain snows to palmy plains, 

To prove the brotherhood of men 

And break, at last, dark Slavery's chains 

****** 
But think how many martyrs sleep 

On fire-swept fields, by blood made red 
And shall we not in memory keep. 

As living still, the hero-dead? 




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REVOLUTIONARY POWDER HORN BEARING THE DATE I//5. 
(Owned by W. S. C. Perkins, M.D.. grandson of Lieutenant Elisha Way.) 



CAROLINE (WAY) CLARK 

ELISHA WAY— PATRIOT 




IEUTENANT ELISHA WAY was born in Lyme, 

Connecticut, June 13, 1757, and died in Lyme, April 14, 

1842. On May 1st, 1775, at the age of eighteen, he 

enlisted in the 

Sixth Connecticut Regiment 

Colonel Samuel Holden Parsons in command, 

and received the commission of Ensign. He was promoted to the 

rank of Lieutenant July 1st and received his discharge December 1st, 

1/75- 
The first ancestors of Elisha Way came to America from England 

in 1 '130, and the patriot's pedigree is as follows: 

Henry Way. Thomas Way, Jr. 

George Way. Elisha Way, m. Eunice Crocker. 

Thomas Way. 

Eleven children were born to Elisha Way and to Eunice ( Crocker) 
Way, his wife, of whom seven daughters married as follows : Har- 
riett, married Joshua R. Warren; Eunice, married Isaiah Rogers; 
Emma, married Absalom Beckwith ; Esther, married James A. 
Pyne ; Edna, married Roswell Carpenter; Mary, married A. F. 
Perkins ; Caroline, married W. S. Clark. Thomas was lost at sea. 

When twenty-five years of age, Caroline Way married William 
Sheldon Clark of Lyme and passed the earliest years of her married 
life in Lyme. In 1836 her husband sold his farm and started on 
horseback for Western New York. After a long and tiresome 
journey he reached Mendon, where he purchased a large tract of 
land upon which three log houses had already been built. Mrs. 
Clark joined her husband, traveling by way of Albany and the Erie 
canal, which had just been completed. 

The family began the life of western pioneers at Mendon, X. Y., 
which became their permanent home until the death of Mr. Clark 



126 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

in 1877, when Mrs. Clark removed to Lima, N. Y., where she lived 
until her death on May 12, 1902. 

Mrs. Clark was the last survivor of the eleven children of the 
patriot. She was eighty-eight years of age when she became a mem- 
ber of the Connecticut D. A. R., thus proving, after an absence 
of sixty years, her loyalty to her native state, and thus reviving the 
memory of Lieutenant Elisha Way's service in the war for American 
Independence. At the time of her death she was the oldest member 
of the Baptist Church of Lima. Two children* survive her, three 
grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. 

The following lines were written by her a short time before her 
death : 

THE UNSEEN LAND. 

Let me go to the land mine eye hath not seen. 
The river of death is only between, 
I can stem its dark current, 'twill not me o'errlow, 
I am sad, I am weary, let me go, let me go. 

The friends of my youth — oh where have they fled ? 
Some gone far away — others sleep with the dead. 
Nor my own dearest kindred have been spared by that hand, 
Which removes all things lovely to that far distant land. 

Let me go to the land where the flowers ever bloom, 
Our dearest, best hopes, ne'er consigned to the tomb, 
Where sickness and sorrow, pain, anguish or woe 
Can ne'er enter — there. Oh — who would not go? 

Let me go to the land where my loved ones have gone, 
I would fain join the number of that happy throng, 
In singing the praises of him I adore 
lu the bright happy land forever, ever more. 



Authority: Pension list. Adjutant General's Report of Connecticut, pp. 73, 
656, 661. 

* Mrs. Sarah A. Force of Lima, and Mr. Thomas R. Clark of Rochester, 
\ Y. Thomas R. Clark was born March I. 1850; married Lizzie J. Williams. 
Sarah Clark married [saac Force. Alary Clark, her oldest daughter (deceased), 
married I leurv Dryer. 



LYDIA WHEELER (MOORE) HOLDEN 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILY— MOORE 




YDIA WHEELER (MOORE) HOLDEN became a 
member of Faith Trumbull Chapter, January 18th, 1897, 
at the age of seventy-nine years. Her genealogical line 
is as follows : John Moore, born in England : David 
Moore, 1st, born in Westerly, R. I. ; David Moore, 2d, b. in Rich- 
mond, R. I., July 25, 1752 ; d. Oct. 31, 1839: Lydia Wheeler Moore, 
born in Stonington, Oct. 26, 1818. 

David Moore, 1st, was drawn for service in the Continental army, 
but his son Silas, a youth of seventeen or eighteen, went as his 
father's substitute, serving in the expeditions against Xew York. 
Later in life Silas Moore held the office of Deputy Sheriff and 
Justice of Peace. His name has been perpetuated in nearly every 
branch of his descendants. In 1832, when seventy-four years of 
age, he received a pension for two years' service in the Continental 
arm}'. 

David Moore, 2d, patriot and pensioner, entered the Continental 
army at the age of twenty-four as Sergeant in 

Colonel Thomas Porter's Regiment. Rhode Island ( 1776) 
Captain Simeon Clark's Company. 

He also served (in 1778) in 

Colonel Charles Dyer's Regiment 
Captain Robert Pailey's Company, 

and was present at the battle of Rhode Island in August of that year. 

In 1796 David Moore, 2d, received a commission- as Lieutenant 
of the Fourth Company, Third Regiment of Cavalry in the Con- 
necticut militia, dated May 2^. and signed by < 'liver Wolcott "Cap- 
tain General and Commander-in-Chief in and over the State ^\ Con- 
necticut of America." 

* This commission is still preserved in the family as a valued heir! 



125 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

David Moore, 2d, married three times, had ten children and 
twenty-eight grandchildren. His first wife was Lydia Wheeler, 
whom he married on March 16, 1872. Their children were: 

Sally, 1). Jan. 25, 1784; 111. Marlboro Wells. Went to Pittsfield to live and 

was the mother of six children, three sons and three daughters. 
Cyrus, b. July 26, 1785; d. July 25. 1787. 
George, b. Dec. 1, 1787; m. Bridget Wells; they had five daughters and two 

sons; he died June 23, 1823. 
Nancy, b. June 6, 1789; m. Luther Miner of Cornwall, Conn., and was the 

mother of three sons and one daughter; she died Dec. 29, 1867. 
Mary, b. June 4, 1792; m. her cousin Jordan Moore, lived in the vicinity 

of Norwich, and had four sons and one daughter ; her death occurred 

in Sprague, Dec. 31, 1867. 

Lydia (Wheeler) Moore died June 27, 1806. 

David Moore, 2d, married Sally Prentis, his second wife, March 
27th, 1808. She died March 2d, 1817. Their children were: 

Emmeline, b. Nov. 17, 1809; m. Leverett Clark of Cornwall, Conn., and had 

one son; she died May II, 1836. 
Eliza P., b. Jan. 18, 1814; d. March n, 1814. 

David Moore, 2d. married Keziah Ames, his third wife, Decemher 
28, 1817. She died May 2d, 1861. Their children were: 

Lydia Wheeler, b. Oct. 20, 1818; m. Walter Holden, Feb. 20, 1850; d. Nov. 

18, 1900. They had three children. 
Charles Tyler, b. Oct. 15, 1820; d. April 6, 1821. 
Hannah Tyler, b. Dec. 19, 1822; m. John Batty of Mystic, Conn. They had 

two sons and one daughter. 

Lydia Wheeler Moore, when ahout seventeen years old went 
to live with her sister Emmeline in Cornwall, Conn. She had a 
very vivid recollection of the two days' journey by stage-coach, 
stopping over-night in Hartford. 

On February 20, 1850, she was married to Walter Holden. They 
lived on Corning Road in Preston, and Mrs. Holden lived there 
nearly all the rest of her life. 

After five years of married life, Mrs. Holden was left a widow 
with three small children : Edward (born February 22, 185 1) ; Justin 
(born October 5, 1852), and Maria Dudley (born June 9, 1855). 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



129 



The only (laughter died January 13. 1879, whose early death was a 
life-long grief to the mother. Mrs. Holden lived a home life, giving 
her time and loving care to her fatherless children, and to kindh 
deeds of Christian love to those about her. She was a consistent 
member of the Baptist Church. She died in Preston. Connecticut, 
November 18th, 1900, at the age of eighty-two years. With the 




LYDIA WHEELER ( MOORE) HOLDEN. 

exception of deafness, age had not impaired her faculties. She took 
an active interest in all that transpired about her. and she employed 
much of her time in sewing rugs, which were made with the extreme 
neatness and care which characterized all of her needle-work. 

Ellen Kilbourne Bishop. 



(MRS. I'-. I'. BISHOP.) 



Authorities 



Connecticut Pension Rolls, List of pensioners residing in New 

London County in 1832. p. 656. 
Acljt. Genl.'s Report. Department Records at Washington. 
D. A. R. Year Book, TS93 and 1894. p. 206. 




DR. JOSIAH ROOT'S APOTHECARY UTENSILS. 



Mannab Moobruff Chapter 



SOUTHINGTON 



S)aucibters 
NANCY ,ROOT) POTTER 



of patriots 

JOS1AH ROOT 

— Assistant Apothecary General 

NATHANIEL HUNN ROOT 



EMMA (DUTTON) QUILL 



TIMOTHY DUTTON 



JENNETTE (CARTER) HIGGINS ELIHU CARTER 



HARRIET IREID^ CRISSEY 



ASA REID 



BETSEY (PAYNES IVES 



THOMAS PAYNE 



LOIS (JOHNSON) UPSON 



LEVI JOHNSON 




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DR. JOSIAH ROOTS CERTIFICATE OF MEMBERSHIP, ORDER SOCIETY OF THE 

CINCINNATI. 



NANCY (ROOT) POTTER 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILY— ROOT 




OSIAH ROOT, father of Nancy (Root) Potter, was a 
direct descendant in the sixth generation of Thomas 
Root, who was horn in Badby, England, and who came 
to this country about 1637, being one of the first set- 
tlers of Hartford. The great-grandfather of Josiah, John by name, 
married Mary Woodruff of Farmington, where he lived about 1692. 
He had a son, John, whose son Josiah was the father of Dr. Josiah. 
who was horn in Southington, December 17, 1752, the youngest 
of three children. It is not known with whom he studied medicine, 
but he entered the Revolutionary army as surgeon's mate. By 
promotions he reached the rank of Assistant Apothecary General, 
and was for a time stationed in New York. His name is on the list 
of Revolutionary pensioners and he was an original member of the 
Society of the Cincinnati. 

His father, Josiah, died at the early age of twenty-eight, in the 
same vear (1752) in which (Dr.) Josiah was born, leaving two 
sons and a daughter. The oldest son, Nathaniel Hunn Root (born 
1747), served in the Revolutionary war, being with the regiments 
of the Northern Department stationed (1776) near Albany and 
at Fort Stanwix, under the command of 

General Philip Schuyler 

Colonel Samuel Elmore (Sharon) 

Lieutenant John Brown. 

From Dr. Josiah's uncle's family, consisting of nine children, five 
sons* went to the war from Southington: — Captain Hezekiah (born 
1747). Corporal Salmon (born 1752). who "Enlisted for the War" 
in 1777 in 

Captain William Judd's Company (Farmington), 

Elijah (born 1754). Samuel (horn 1757). and Joel (born 1 75' ' ' • 
* Connecticut Men of the Revolution, and Root Genealogy, pp. uu. 130. 



134 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

who "died in the war of the Revolution September 2, 1776, aged 
seventeen years." 

Other members of the Root family in Southington who saw 
service are the brothers Moses (born 1758) and Samuel Root 
(born 1763), the latter "enlisting as a volunteer at the age of six- 
teen and for a time was an orderly of General Washington."* 

In the Southington cemetery among the early stones is one bearing 
this inscription: Elisha Root, Esq., who died September, 1776 at 
East Chester. Being on his way home from the City of New York, 
whither he had been called in defense of his country. Ae. thirty- 
five. 

Elisha Root was the son of Jonathan Root, in whose houset 
(still standing) General Washington was entertained in 1780. 

Southington was a part of Farmington until 1779. In a letter 
written from Farmington to Boston, dated October 4, 1774J 
Jonathan Root wrote in behalf of the committee of the town of 
Farmington : 

"I have shipped on board Capt. Loveman's sloop, 149 bushels of 
grain, given by the inhabitants of Southington for the relief of the 
industrious poor of Boston, viz: 22^2 bush, of wheat, 118 bush, 
of rye, <p 2 bush, corn." 

"A letter full of grateful and patriotic expressions was returned, 
signed by David Jeffries on behalf of the recipients, dated Boston, 
November 15, 1774." 

At the close of the war Dr. Root began a general practice in 
Hamden, removing to Southington in 1805. He was a man of 
good abilities and had a disposition which made him very popular, 
especially among the young. He was a "natural surgeon," but 
strongly objected to any unnecessary use of the knife, using intui- 
tively the means which would prevent the need of such action. 

His marriage to Merab, daughter of Lemuel Lewis, took place 
April 8, 1786. Their children numbered eight, Nancy being next 
to tlie youngest. She was born in Hamden, Conn., May 4, 1801, 
and throughout her long life was a constant worker. In her youth 
she was employed in hat binding and winding silk buttons. She 

* Root Genealogy, p. 174. 

t For illustration see Patron Saints, p. 309. 

t See State Archives, and Root Genealogy, p. 141. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



35 



was also a teacher for a short time, but at the age of twenty-two 
she became the wife of Joel Potter, who was for many years 
a prominent merchant of Southington. During the life of Mr. 
Potter the family lived in the old Priest Robinson place on North 
Main Street, which contained much of the furniture used by this 
early minister. One chair of the ancient high-backed pattern was 
a cherished possession of hers and is now over one hundred and 
fiftv years old. 




:a3£S 



A CHIPPENDALE (HAIR (150 YEARS OLD) . PROPERTY OF MRS. NANCY (ROOT) 
POTTER. FORMERLY OWNED BY PRIEST ROBINSON. 



For over fifty years Mr. and Mrs. Potter lived together, having 
welcomed children to their home, some of whom lived to maturity ; 
yet all entered the celestial city before their parents. At last she 
was left alone in the old home, where she remained until received 
into the family of her grand-niece. In the peaceful sunset of her 
life she retained her fondness for young people, and she was always 
very active, her physical powers being remarkable for one of her 
great age. At the time of the charter meeting ( Hannah Woodrufl 
Chapter), a carriage was sent for her, and she mounted two long 



136 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

flights of stairs, although she was ninety-six years old, saying with 
characteristic energy, "I will keep on until I reach the hall." She 
received an enthusiastic welcome, the Chapter counting it an honor 
to receive its oldest patriot's daughter on that occasion. 

She survived all of her brothers and sisters for nearly half a cen- 
tury and her own immediate family for nearly as long, and entered 
into rest at the great age of ninety-eight years. May 28, 1899. 

Dr. Josiah Root married Merab, daughter of Lemuel Lewis, April 
8, 1786. Their children were: 

Lloyd, b. Sept. 14. 1787; d. Feb. 20, 1838. 

Laura, b. Aug. 30, 1780; rri. Nov. 7, 1814, Billings Tisdale; d. Sept. 20, 1832. 

Betsey, b. Dec. 31, 1791 ; m. July 15, 1816, Chauncy Buck; d. Mar. 8, 1874. 

Reuben Smith, b. Mar. 7, 1794; d. Sept. 1, 1S06. 

James, b. April 2, [796; m. Freelove S. Leonard; d. Mar. 14, 1842. 

William, b. June 10, 1798; d. Aug. 25, 1848. 

Nancy, b. May 8, 1801 ; m. April 2J,, 1822, Joel Potter; d. May 28, 1899. 

Emily, b. May 20, 1805; d. July 24, 1836. 

Joel Potter and Nancy Root were married April 23, 1822. Their 
children were : 

Lucretia, b. April 28, 1823; d. Oct. 11, 1844. 

Samuel Martin, b. Nov. 10, 1825; rn. Dec. 22, 1S46, Martba Bidwell ; d. 

May 17, 1850. 
Charles Albert, b. Feb. 8, 1830; d. April 3, 1832. 
Anna Maria, b. Aug. 13, 1837; d. Aug. 15, 1852. 



EMMA (DUTTON) QUILL 

TIMOTHY DUTTON— PATRIOT 




MOTHY BUTTON, father of Emma (Dutton) Quill, 

was born February 7, 1761. His Revolutionary record 

was not of great length and seems to have been in 

response to an emergency call and is explained as 

follows : 

As recruiting for the Continental Line proceeded slowly in the 
spring of 'yj, and as the regiments from Connecticut were not ready 
to take the field in March, Washington urged the Governor to send 
a body of militia to serve for six weeks at Peekskill.* Three regi- 
ments were accordingly ordered and the brigade placed in com- 
mand of 

P>rigadier-General Erastus Wolcott (Windsor) 
Brigade Major Roger Hooker (Farmington). 

One regiment was in command of 

Colonel Noadiah Hooker ( Farmington ) 
Major Cad Stanley (Farmington). 

There were at least eight companies in this regiment, over one 
of which was Captain Asa Bray ( Southington ) ; another was cap- 
tained by Amos Barnes, and in the rolls of these companies are 
found many names of families who were then settled in the Farming- 
ton parishes. f These men were stationed at White Plains. Fishkill, 
Crompond and Fort Montgomery. 

Timothv Dutton enlisted in the company of Captain Bray, 
Colonel Hooker's regiment, and arrived in camp April 3, 1777. 
His discharge is dated May 15, 1777. His daughter remembers 
that the children of the neighborhood used often to come to hear 
him tell stories, those of the war being of particular interest. 

* See Connecticut Men of the Revolution, pp. 494, (.99 
t See Levi Johnson sketch, paragraph second, p. [52. 



138 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

He married January 6, 1785, Lucy Lang-don (born April 2, 1767). 
His death occurred Xovember 15, 1837, at the age of seventy-seven. 
Mrs. Dutton, his wife, died May 31, 1854. 

Emma (Dutton) Quill, the daughter of Timothy and Lucy (Lang- 
don) Dutton, was born November 25, 1808. Her early life was 
spent in Southington in her childhood's home on West Street, until 




mm & ft 




EMMA ( DUTTON ) QUILL. 

her marriage, July 20, 1828. Her husband, Joseph Quill, was a 
merchant, and soon after their marriage the young couple went 
to Milledgeville, Georgia, where, owing to the dishonesty of his 
partner, Mr. Quill met with financial reverses. A few years later 
he returned to Southington, where be was more successful. Five 
children were born to them, two of whom survived their parents, 
and with whom they spent their declining years. 

Their fiftieth wedding anniversary was celebrated in 1878, in the 
same house in which they began their married life. Many friends 
and relatives congratulated them and remembered them with appro- 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 139 

priate gifts. Twenty years later, during the winter of 1898, which 
they spent with their son* in Wallingford, Mr. Quill died in his 
ninety-sixth year. For seventy years Mrs. Quill and her husband 
lived together, and as advancing years made him an increasing care, 
her earnest hope was that she might be spared to minister to him 
as long as he lived. She survived him until August 3, i8<j<j. when, 
at the age of ninety-one years and nine months, she too "entered 
into rest." This waiting time was spent with her daughterf in 
Plantsville, where she was surrounded by children's children, and 
tenderly cared for. 

The children of Timothy and Lucy (Langdon) Dutton were: 

Amos, b. Oct. 8, 17S5 ; d. Oct. 25, 1785. 
Sylvester, b. June 27, 1788; d. Sept. 9, 1788. 
Irad, b. 1793; d. June 22, 1793. 
Timothy, b. May 25, 1795; d. Sept. 7, 1817. 

Lucy, b. June 25, 1797; m. Aug. 26, 1817, Caleb Peck; d. Oct. 13. 1851. 
Sophia, b. July 13, 1800; m. Jan. 27, 1819. Allen Dutton. 
Betsey, b. July 5, 1805; ni. June 24, 1824, Seth Judd; d. Feb. 26, 1857. 
Emma. b. Nov. 25, 1808; m. July 20, 1828, Joseph W. Quill, who died April 
14. 1S98. She died Aug. 3, 1899. 

The children of Joseph and Emma (Dutton) Quill were: 

George, b. and d. Aug. 31, 1830. 

Georgiaxa, b. Nov. 4, 183 1 ; m. Julius Dutton Oct. 12, 1852: d. Sept. I, 1861. 

Mary Jaxe. b. April 29, 1838; m. Nathan S. Thresher. May 19, 1859: d. Sept. 

1, 1879. 
John Dutton, b. May 14, 1847; m. (1) Emma Hawley of Bristol, (2) Mary 

P. Hart. 
Emma Gertrude, b. Jan. 22, 1852; m. Carlos P. Newell, Oct. 7. 1874. 

*John Dutton Quill, M.D. 
t Mrs. Carlos P. Newell. 




JENNETTE ( CARTER) HIGGINS. 



JENNETTE (CARTER) HIGGINS 

ELIHU CARTER— PATRIOT 




LIHU CARTER, father of Jennette (Carter) Higgins, 
was born January 20, 1759. He was a direct descendant 
of Jacob Carter of Branford, who came to that place 
from Southold, L. I. His service in the Revolutionary 
army was not that of a soldier. He belonged to a regiment of 
artificers, authorized by Congress in 1777, which was attached to a 
pioneer construction corps. 

This Regiment of Artificers was commanded by 

Jeduthan Baldwin (Mass.) "Colonel of Engineers." 

It served under the direction of the Quartermaster General and 
was at Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth and other fields. A 
large proportion of the officers and men were from Connecticut — 
the companies of Captains Painter (Salisbury), Wilcox and ( )sborn 
(Wallingford), Sizer (Middletown ), and Pendleton (Watertown), 
having on their rolls the names of men from Waterbury, Farming- 
ton, Wallingford and nearby towns and parishes. 

When General Green assumed command of the Southern Depart- 
ment in 1780, he "urgently requested that Captain Pendleton's 
(Watertown) Company of Artificers 'wholly raised in Connecti- 
cut' might be sent to him." "This company was the only body of 
men from the State that served south of Virginia during the Revo- 
lution. It remained there until the disbandment of the troops in 
November. '83." Hence some of the men from this section of Con- 
necticut witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. 

1 11 Captain Pendleton's company's rolls the names of the "late 
recruits" are given with their occupations as follows: Carpenter, 
shoemaker, tailor, cooper, wheelwright, nailer, silversmith. 

* Connecticut Men of the Revolution, p. 295. 



342 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Elihn Carter was in 

Captain Gamaliel Painter's (Salisbury) Company 
Ensign and Lieutenant, Jesse Prior (Middletown). 

Elihu Carter was a shoemaker — his ability to make good shoes 
being of special importance to the patriot cause. At some time 
during his service he contracted small pox, and "suffered greatly." 
He was at Brandy wine, Germantown and Monmouth, and is 
recorded as having enlisted for three years. His name is on the 
list of Revolutionary pensioners. 

Jennette Carter was born in Southington September 5, 1803, the 
third child in a family of five. She was married to Timothy Higgins 
November 4, 1824, and became the mother of eleven children, only 
three of whom are now living. Nearly ten years after their mar- 
riage, Mr. and Airs. Higgins became members of the Congregational 
Church in Southington. Forty years later their church membership 
in Southington was transferred to the church in Plantsville. 

They lived together past their sixtieth wedding anniversary. On 
the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary the collation was served 
on china which formed part of the original "setting out." Among 
the interior decorations was this : "Their children rise up and call 
them blessed," with the dates "1824" and "1874." Many rare and 
costly gifts were brought by relatives and friends. The aged hus- 
band on this occasion said, that engagement rings were not used in 
early days, but that he would ratify the early agreement by placing a 
ring upon the bride's finger. 

Very noteworthy was the celebration of the sixtieth wedding anni- 
versary, which found the elderly couple still hale and hearty. They 
welcomed their friends with the same cordiality as in their younger 
days. At tins time Deacon Higgins presented each of his children 
with five hundred dollars in gold pieces and his grandchildren with 
a five dollar gold piece each. The welcoming address by the aged 
man was a touching one, and he concluded by saying, "We can say 
that through the kind, providential care of our Heavenly Father, 
our last days are being our best days." 

Three years later, after a short illness. Deacon Higgins went 
home, "A man full of faith and the Holy Spirit." On November 
16, 1896. Mrs. Higgins had a slight shock of paralysis, which dis- 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 143 

abled her right side, rendering her virtually helpless. Her mind 
remained clear and active as ever, her general health seemingly 
unimpaired. She read for hours at a time and conversed with her 
wonted ease. 

Thus in serene tranquillity and hope she tarried "until the 
shadows had a little longer grown." She was under the care of 
her daughter,* whose devotion did all that love and consideration 
could do to lighten the burden of helplessness. Many friends 
called on her even to the last. Airs. Higgins died on the eighth of 
May, 1898, aged nearly ninety-five years. 

Elihu Carter and Mercy Scott were married January 29. [789. 
Mercy (Scott) Carter died November 10, 1789. To them was born 
one child : 

Mary, b. Oct. 29. 1789; 111. Mar. 24. 1813, Nathan Lewis. 

Elihu Carter and Sarah Hopkinsf were married November 2\. 
1790. Their children were: 

Mercy, b. Dec. 22, 1791 ; m. Feb. 17, 1819, John Howd ; d. Jan. 29, i860; 

aged sixty-eight years. 
Hopkins, b. Dec. 11, 1794; m. Nov. 26, 1817, Phila Frisbie ; d. May 4, 1878; 

aged eighty-three years. 
Jcnncttc, b. Sept. 5, 1803; m. Nov. 4, 1824, Dea. Timothy Higgins ; d. May 

8, 1898. 
Asahel, b. 1808; m. (1) Oct. 27, 1833, Eunice Aurelia Pond, who died Mar. 

5, 1S36; m. (2) April 12, 1837, Jennette Curtiss ; m. (3) Dec. 25, 1878, 

Mary A. Clark; d. Sept. 5, 1884; aged seventy-live years. 

Sarah (Hopkins) Carter died February 21, 1842. Elihu Carter 
died May 22, 1844, at the age of eighty-five. 

* Miss Harriet Higgins. 

t The ancestry of Sarah Hopkins is as follows: 

1. Isaac Hopkins m. Mary Hickox. 

2. Captain Simeon Hopkins, b. Nov. 10, 1740; m. Nov. 15. 1704, Lois Richards 

(dau. Obadiah Richards); d. May 4, 1793. 

3. Sarah Hopkins, b. June 2. 1707; m. Elihu Carter. 



144 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

The children of Deacon Timothy and Jennette (Carter) Higgins 
were : 

Laura A., b. Aug. 31, 1828; m. April 12, 1852, Joseph B. Beadle. 

Jennette C, b. Jan. 31, 1830; m. April 24, 1850, Henry D. Smith; d. June 10, 

1887. 
Lucius H., b. July 4. 1832; m. Sept. 4, 1861, Louise Y. Blakeslee. 
Mary, b. April 8, 1834; m. Dec. 5, 1855, Edwin P. Hotchkiss ; d. Sept. 12, 

1894. 
Harriet, b. Mar. 21, 1836. 
Edwin, b. June 19, 1841 ; d. Sept. 30, 1861. 

Four other children were born who died in childhood. 

Traditional Revolutionary material for this sketch was furnished by Mrs. 
Jane Carter Twichell, a granddaughter of the patriot. 



HARRIET (REID) CRISSEY 

ASA REID— PATRIOT 




ARRIET, daughter of Asa and Jerusha ( Buddington) 
Reid, was born March 18, 1809, in Lisbon, Conn. She 
remembers her father and she distinctly recalled a 
verse of poetry which he taught her shortly before his 
death, when she was about five vears old. 

"Though I am young, a little one. 
If I can speak and go alone, 
'Tis time for me to know the Lord. 
And learn to love His holy word." 

This is part of a poem to be found in old editions of the Nezv 
England Primer. She also remembered that her father lifted her 
on his horse, holding- her at what seemed to her an immense height. 
When she was five years of age, her father* died, leaving his widow 
with seven children to care for, the oldest being only fourteen vears 
of age. She also remembers the church, into which she used to 
lead her blind stepfather. The hymns were "deaconed" off and 
the singing was congregational. The meetings were often held in 
a schoolhouse. in which an old-fashioned table, with a half of the 
top turned up, served for a pulpit. 

After her father's death she assisted in caring for the young chil- 
dren of the neighbors, and relieved the monotony of this occupation 
by learning Watts' Hymns. Although brought up among Baptists, 
she could never reconcile herself to close communion. 

At sixteen she found a home with an uncle in Southington, where 
she met Charles Crissey, to whom she was married June 23. [830. 

Mrs. Crissey is still living. t the last of the Patriots' Daughters of 
Hannah Woodruff Chapter. Iter ninety-third birthday was cele- 

* Asa Reid died April [3, 1814, aged 66 year^. 
t February, 1904. 



146 



PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



brated on the eighteenth of .March. 1903. It was hoped that a pen- 
sion might be secured to be presented to her on that day, but the 
application was unsuccessful. Her birthdays are always appro- 
priately remembered by the Chapter. She is deeply interested in 
the world's doings, is in full possession of her faculties, and enjoys 
reading, particularly her Bible and religious periodicals. 




HARRIET (REID) CRISSEV. 



The children of Charles and Harriet ( Reid ) Crissey were 



James Walter, b. April 24. 1831 ; 111. (1) Mrs. Ellen A. Barnes, April 24, 
1858; (2) Miss Selina Woodruff, Nov. 30, 1875; d. June 16, 1902. 

Charles, b. July 10, 1837; m. Oct. 22. 1866. Aurelia D. Raymond of Phila- 
delphia. 

Julius, b. Sept. 15. 1844; m. June 2. 1867, Mary I. Abbott; d. Feb. 6. 1S88. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 147 

Asa Reid, the father of Harriet (Reid) Crissey, was born in 
Lisbon, near Norwich (Conn.), July 29, 1748. 
In the records of the 

Fourth Battalion Wadsworth's Brigade 

Colonel Samuel Seidell's (Hadlyme) Regiment 

Captain Joshua Huntington's (Norwich) Sixth Company 

is found the enlistment record of Asa Reed ( Reid). 

This battalion was raised in June, 1776, to reinforce Washington 
in New York, and was caught in the retreat and panic of Septem- 
ber 15, when New York City was abandoned* and suffered some 
loss. Colonel Selden was taken prisoner and died a prisoner ( in 
New York City, October 11, 1776) ; also many other officers and 
soldiers in the regiment. f 

There were eight companies in Colonel Selden 's regiment, in 
three of which were men whose families are represented in Connecti- 
cut's list of Patriots' Daughters, viz. : 2d Company, Lieutenant Isaac 
Wheeler Stanton| ; 5th Company, Captain Abel Spicer§ ; 6th Com- 
pany (Captain Joshua Huntington), Private Asa Reed. 

The survivors in the regiment "remained with the army until 
December 25, '76, when the term of the regiment expired." The 
rolls are incomplete, but among the "casualties" on record is a 
list of the "Missing" September 15, "on Retreat from New York ;" 
also a list of those "sick at Stamford, November 9." 

* See footnote Mahala Terry sketch, Abigail Phelps Chapter, p. _>_>. 
t From papers in the Pension Bureau by Captain Eliphalet Holme-, (see 
p. 404 Conn. Men in the Revolution.) 

±See Sarah Maria (Davis) Brayton sketch, Anna Warner Bailey Chapter, 

p. 49- 

§ See Spicer sketch, Anna Warner Bailey Chapter, p. 39. 
II See Conn. Men in the Revolution, p. 405. 




COPY OF INDENTURE OF THOMAS PAYNE AS APPRENTICE. (l775) 



BETSEY (PAYNE) IVES 

THOMAS PAYNE— PATRIOT 




H( )MAS PAYXE was born October I, 1758. He enlisted 
early in the war but the enlistment rolls of his con- 
pany are missing". His discharge from the North De- 
partment is on record and is dated November 28, 1775.* 
Thomas Payne probably enlisted on the first call of the Connecticut 
Legislature for troops (April-May, 1775) in the regiments which 
in the summer of the same year were adopted as Continental under 
the command of 

Colonel and Major-General David Wooster. 
Tins regiment marched in June to New York, encamped at Harlem, 
and then marched (September) to join the Northern Department 
under the command of 

Major-General Philip Schuyler, 
whence under the leadership of 

General Richard Montgomery, 
the Connecticut patriots took part in the operations along Lakes 
George and Champlain, assisted in reducing St. Johns in October 
and were afterwards stationed in Montreal. Much sickness pre- 
vailed and many soldiers were mustered out in October and Novem- 
ber. Thomas Payne's name is again mentioned in a roll dated 
September 17, 1777* as a member of a State Regiment 

Captain James Peck's (Wallingford) Company t 
Major John Davenport, Jr., 
of the battalion under command of 

Colonel Roger Enos (Windsor). 

* See Connecticut Men of the Revolution, pp. 44, 615. 

f Captain James Peck was from Wallingford. He was a member of the 
Lexington Alarm Company from his town and served as a lieutenant. He 
was soon commissioned ensign, then 2d lieutenant and finally captain. In his 
company of September 17. 1777, were several men from Xew Cambridge (now 
Bristol), a parish of Farmington, and others who are afterwards identified 
with Bristol history. 



150 L'ATRIOTS DALV.IITERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Aii interesting relic belonging" to the Hannah Woodruff Chapter 
is the certificate of Thomas Payne's apprenticeship at seventeen 
years of age, to learn the tool maker's trade. It is quaintly worded 
and shows the peculiar business methods of the time. It is dated 
June 27, 1775. and was to be binding until October 1, 1778. But 
the following summer finds the young apprentice serving the patriot 
cause in Canada, and in 1777 he is also on record as in the service. 

This Indenture Witnesseth That I Thomas Paine of the Town and County 
of New Haven in the Colony of Connecticut have with the full and free 
Consent of my Guardian mr. Jesse Beach of Sd New Haven Put myself An 
Apprentice to Hezekiah Tuttle of Sd New Haven after the manner of an 
apprentice to Dwell with and Serve the Sd Hezh. Tuttle his Master untill the 
Sd apprentice from the Date Hereof shall arrive to the age of twenty one 
years which Is On the 1 day of October In the year 1778 all which time the Sd 
Apprentice his Sd Master faithfully Shall Serve, his Secrets shall keep, his 
Lawful Commands shall obey, shall do no Damage to his Sd master or see 
it done by others without Giving timely Notice thereof he Shall not Comit 
fornication or Contract Matrimony within Sd term he Shall not Play at any 
Unlawful (lame he shall not absent himself day nor night From his Sd 
masters Service, but in all things Shall behave himself As a faithfull appren- 
tice ought to Do During Sd term. 

And the Sd Master Shall provide for his Sd apprentice Suficient meat 
Drink washing and lodging and apparel during Sd term. And teach Sd 
apprentice the art and mystery of making axes and Other Edge tools and to 
Give Sd apprentice advantage to learn to Write and Arithmetick So far as 
to keep a book of acompts And at the End of Sd term to Dismiss his Sd 
apprentice With two Good Sutes of apperel the one fit for Sabath days the 
Other fit for Every days and a Bible, for the true purformance of the Sd 
Articles and Covenant the Sd parties bind themselves to each other 

In witness whereof we have Inter Changably hereunto Set our 
hands and Seals In New Haven this 27 day of January in the 
fifteenth year Of our Soverign lord George the 3rd. by the Grace 
of God Of Great Briton and in the year of our Lord 1775. 
Signed Sealed and Delivered 
In Presense of Thomas Payne 

Josiah Munn Jesse Beecher 

Samuel Beecher jur Hezekiah Tuttle. 

Three sons and three daughters were born to Thomas Payne. His 
wife's family name is not known ; her baptismal name was Elizabeth. 
Thomas Payne died in Waterburv, June 29, 1835, a g e d seventy- 
seven vears. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 151 

Betsey Payne, the youngest child of Thomas Payne, was born in 
Hartford, November 3, 1803, and married Silas Ives of Cheshire, 
February I, 1826. Only one child, a daughter, who was named for 
her mother Elizabeth, was born to them. This daughter, born Jan- 
uary 21, 1827, married Samuel T. Hull April [9, 1848, and died 
May 22, 1883. 

The great age and the consequent mental and physical weakness 
of Mrs. Ives at the time she joined the Chapter made it difficult to 
obtain from her much information as to her father's family. She 
could recall little of her childhood, but her memory retained some 
incidents of her early married life. Her marriage was celebrated 
in church, which was unusual. While on their wedding journey her 
husband went hunting and by a fortunate shot killed fourteen quail 
at once. The young couple set up housekeeping in a house which 
was her home for seventy-two years. 

At the age of forty she became a member of the Congregational 
Church of Cheshire. Her loved, only daughter died after years of 
invalidism, leaving in turn an only daughter, who assumed the care 
of her grandmother and made the last years of the aged woman 
happy and peaceful. Mrs. Betsey (Payne) Ives died in Cheshire 
on April 18. 1898. at the age of ninety-four, though conscious con- 
nection with life ended sometime before. Finally, as the Book says, 
"the golden bowl was broken, the silver cord was loosed and the 
spirit returned to God who gave it." 



LOIS (JOHNSON) UPSON 

LEVI JOHNSON— PATRIOT 




EVI JOHNSON, father of Airs. Lois (Johnson) Upson, 
was born in February, 1762. His one recorded enlist- 
ment in the war was in the regiment commanded by 
Colonel Roger Enos (Windsor) 
Captain Asa Bray's Company (Southington parish). 
The record states that this company enlisted for three months, that 
Captain Asa Bray arrived in camp July 2, 1778. and that this com- 
pany was in the service of the Hinted States of America. Levi 
Johnson at this time was sixteen years of age. The rolls contain- 
ing the record of his definite service or later enlistments are missing. 
His application* for a pension gives the length of his service as 
fourteen months and twelve days, as a private. 

In Captain Asa Fray's company at different times, or in regiments 
to which his companies belonged, were many patriots whose descend- 
ants now live in the towns which were once parishes of the Colonial 
town of Farmington. An interesting record in connection with the 
Fifteenth Regiment of Militia is the "Return Roll of the men 
detached to serve in the battalion commanded by 
Lieutenant-Colonel Mead 

from March 29, 177Q, till November 1, 1780." There are twenty- 
one captains and twice as many men, all from Farmington parishes, 
Southington, Kensington, New Britain, Burlington (West Britain) 
and Bristol (New Cambridge) : — Captains Asa Fray and Ambrose 
Sloper (Southington); Captains Hezekiah Gridley and Amos 
Barnes (New Cambridge): Captains Matthew Cole and Allen 
( Kensington). The records include also an earlier order to march 

* His application is dated August 8, 1832, at which time he was seventy 

years old, residing in Wolcott. Mis third wife and widow Ruth also made 
application for and received a pension on the ground of such services. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 153 

to Peekskill and to muster the men "Thursday next at nine o'clock 
in the morning at the Meeting House in the first society in Farm- 
ington," and is signed by Noadiah Hooker, Lieutenant-Colonel, 
and is dated Farmington, September 17, 1777. 

Levi Johnson's first marriage was in T782 to Huldah Beeeher, 1>ut 
the date of his second marriage is not known.* His third wife was 
Ruth Judd. He died in Wolcott at the age of seventy-two, Decem- 
ber 10. 1834. 

The patriot, Levi Johnson, by his first marriage to Huldah 
(Beeeher) Johnson had eight children, namely: 



Lucy, m. Leonard Harrison. 


Irene, 


Huldah, 


Merrilla, 


Nancy, 


Sylvia, 


Salmon, 


Levi. 



To Levi Johnson by his second marriage to Hannah Sutliff two 
children were born, but the children's names have not been learned. 

To Levi and Ruth (Judd) Johnson, his third wife, were born four 
children : 

Julius, Cordki.ja. 

Leveret, Lois. 

Lois Johnson, the fourteenth child of her father, the patriot, was 
born in Southington, Hartford County, Conn., December 21, 18 17. 
When twenty-one years old (in 1838) she was married to Lucian 
L^pson of Wolcott. He was a twin brother of Lucius Upson of 
Southington, whose family is identified with the Colonial history of 
their town. 

The children of Lucian and Lois (Johnson) Upson were: 

Lerov, 1). Jan. 14, 1840, in. (1) Nov. 26, 1862, Ardelia Tuttle, who died Dec. 

r 3> l &75 ; m. (2) Jan. 3, 1877, Mrs. Esther Cook. 
Sophronia Elizabeth, b. June 30, 1842: m. Dec. 24, 1865, J. H. Garrigus. 
Lucella .Melissa, b. Nov. 13, 1853; m. Oct. 29, 1874. James A. Todd; d. 

Aug. 16, 1884. 

* The records of the family were destroyed by lire in 1800. making it almost 
impossible to secure complete genealogical data. 



154 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

When the Civil War broke out, although Mr. Upson's age would 
have freed him from obligation to serve in the army, he enlisted as 
private in Company K, Eighth Regiment, serving from October 9, 
1861, to December 7, 1862. He was honorably discharged on 
account of ill health. Their only son, and the grandson of the 
Revolutionary soldier, has a record in the Civil War as follows : 
"enlisted, then promoted, discharged, re-enlisted, promoted and 
finally honorably mustered out December 12, 1865." 

Mrs. Upson's faculties served her to the last. Her eyesight con- 
tinued good and she sewed so well that her grandson said of her 
fine darning, "After grandma darns anything you could not tell 
where it had been mended." Thus engaged in the duties which 
come to the patient grandmother, she waited in her elder daughter's 
home, ready in God's own time to follow the loved husband and 
daughter who entered into rest before her. Mrs. Upson died 
August 2$, 1900, aged eighty-three. 

Ellen Tuttlc Lewis. 

(Mrs. a. m. lewis.) 



Authorities consulted for data used in these sketches are : 

Timlow's History of Southington, and Connecticut Men in the Revo- 
lution; also genealogical records of the patriots' families furnished 
by Mrs. Harriet (Reid) Crissey. Airs. Emma (Quill) Newell, Miss 
Harriet Higgins, Mrs. E. B. Kilbourn, Miss Antoinette Hull, Airs. 
Lizzie Garrigus ; also church records of Reverends Wm. Robin- 
son and David L. Ogden. 



Ikathartne (5a\>lorb Chapter 



BRISTOL 



©aucibter of patriot 

MARY J. ROBBINS EBENEZER ROBBINS 

—Sergeant 
RUFUS ROBBINS 

JOHN ROBBINS 



(5reen Woobs Chapter 



WINSTED 



5>avuibter ot lpatriot 

MARY AUGUSTA (STEELE) CLEVELAND JOHN STEEL 




trfriryri^f 



MARY J. ROBBINS 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILY— ROBBINS 




X the early days of the D. A. R., before our connection 
with the heroes of the American Revolution through the 
presence of their daughters was widely known, there 
came to the Regent of the Katharine Gaylord Chapter 
a gentle, retiring lady, who said that the speaker's father had 
fought in the War for American Independence. The Chapter 
Board promptly voted to invite this soldier's daughter to become 
their honorary member, — an invitation which was finally accepted 
by Miss Robbins. Shrinking from publicity, it required some per- 
suasion to induce our patriot's daughter to emerge from her quiet 
life-corner, but filial affection prevailed and thus are preserved war 
reminiscences of patriot Ebenezer Robbins. 

Miss Robbins was born in Ashford, Connecticut. She received 
her early education in Connecticut, finishing at Munson Academy, 
Mass., under Principals Fay and Hammond. She was a charter 
member of the Congregational Church at Stafford Springs, Conn., 
but became a member by letter of the Center Church, Hartford, in 
June, 1855. She resided in Hartford many years, but latterly made 
her home in Bristol. 

The earliest mention of Miss Robbins' family in America is of 
Robert Robbins, who arrived about 1650. He had served as Lieu- 
tenant in the army of King Charles I. in Scotland, retaining his 
rank until Charles was beheaded ( 1648), when he crossed the sea>. 
settled in Roxbury, Mass., and married Mary Maxwell. His son 

Nathaniel moved to Killingly, Conn., and married Miss 

Levins. Nathaniel afterward removed to Hampton, Conn. His son 
John (of Hampton) married Rebecca Farnham of Andover, Ma>^. 
The\' had thirteen children,* of whom Ebenezer, the patriot, was 
the sixth. 

* The children of John and Rebecca Farnham Robbins were: Mary. Alice, 
Patience, John, Solomon, Ebenezer, Hannah, Nathaniel, Abigail, Jeremiah, 
Rebecca, Olive, Rufns. 



158 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Ebenczer Robbins was born at Hampton, Windham County, 
Conn., February 24, 1758, and died at Ashford, Conn., October 
6, 1849. He married first Esther Alworth ; second, Zeruah Car- 
penter of Willington, Conn. Of the eight children born to Ebenezer 
Robbins, five were living in 1889, at the time of the D. A. R. organi- 
zation. Two, Esther, the sixth child, and Alary J. Robbins, the 
seventh,* became honorary members of Connecticut chapters. 

Ebenezer Robbins responded to the Lexington Alarm,f under Col. 
Knowlton, as Sergeant from xAshford, serving twenty-three days. 
He re-enlisted July 19, 1775 in the Eighth Regiment under 

Colonel Jedediah Huntington ( Norwich) 
Captain Daniel Lyon (Woodstock), Seventh Company, 

which served on Long Island Sound and in Boston camps, and 
was discharged in December (1775). This regiment was reor- 



* The children of Ebenezer Robbins, by his first marriage to Esther Alworth, 
were : 

William Alworth, m. Mary Wallace; six children, two living. 

Mary, died young. 

Nelson, not living. 

Edwin, m. (1) Elizabeth Goodsell ; (2) Elizabeth Northrop; one 

son living. 
Rufus, m. Almira Whiting; no children; d. March 23, 1S99, at Well- 
ington. 

The children by his second marriage, to Zeruah Carpenter of Willington, 
were : 

Esther, m. George Tyler; six children, four living; resides at Union 
City, Michigan; an honorary member of the Susan Carrington 
Clarke Chapter, Meriden, Conn. 
Mary J. Robbins, honorary member of Katharine Gaylord Chapter, 

Bristol, Conn.; d. July 17, 1901. 
Ebenezer, m. Esther Stiles; one son living; d. at Bristol, July 4, 1898. 

fin the list of Ashford men who served in the Lexington Alarm, the first 
name of a man named Robbins is not given. Tradition affirms that Eben- 
ezer Robbins served in this company, hence the belief that the name 

Robins in this list is his. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 159 

ganized in 1776. Ebenezer Robbins served also in the Militia Regi- 
ment commanded by 

Colonel Samuel McLellan ( Woodstock ) 
Captain Abner Robinson, 

raised for one year's service from March, 1778, "till Mar. ye 1, 

1/79- 

"This regiment appears to have served in Brigadier-General 
Tyler's Brigade, under Sullivan in Rhode Island" ( August-Septem- 
ber, 1778). 

The list of Knowlton's Rangers in the Records is incomplete, 
but there is no doubt that Ebenezer Robbins was one of them, 
although his name does not appear. His daughter's testimony goes 
to prove this. She often heard him speak of being near Colonel 
Knowlton. — of hearing his order to the men to lie flat upon the 
slope of the hill as the enemy advanced upon the opposite slope 
before the skirmish, and of seeing him carried from the field mor- 
tally wounded at Harlem Heights. Knowlton's Rangers consisted 
of picked men, and Ebenezer Robbins' service in this company is 
pretty sure evidence of his youthful courage, endurance, and trust- 
worthiness. 

In 1778 he was in Rhode Island, having enlisted for one year's 
service. He was also at Princeton, Trenton, and in the retreat 
through Xew Jersey. At the Crossing of the Delaware he served 
his country in a unique manner — probably amusing to all but him- 
self. As the skiffs were loading he made a riving leap for one 
near by. His gun landed in the boat, he landed in the icy waters, 
and was clutching desperately at the rail, when he felt a foot upon 
bis shoulder and instantly a soldier tumbled over his head into the 
boat. Others followed with such regularity that this bewildered 
human bridge could but submit until his services were no longer 
needed, when he was hauled into the boat bv his grateful and 
dry-shod comrades. ( )n another occasion he and six others on fur- 
lough were passing through Jersey: a horseman without uniform. 
of whom they asked the way to Morristown, directed them to fol- 
low certain blazed trees to which he pointed. They soon halted at 
a farmhouse, where they learned that Morristown lay in quite 



160 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

another direction, and that the trail which they were following would 
kad them into a British encampment at Brunswick, whose officers 
came daily to the farm. The rider proved to be a Tory of the 
locality. These "rebel" soldiers therefore faced about and soon left 
the author of this treachery far in the rear. 

Ebenezer Robbins served probably during the war. Tradition 
affirms that he responded to the Lexington Alarm, and he was 
also with the army when it disbanded. His name is on the Pension 
Lists, also on the War Records, and his daughter remembers hear- 
ing him say more than fifty years after the war that he could at 
any time obtain more evidence of service, if it were necessary. 

His brother Rufus served as a private in the Connecticut Light 
Infantry. His brother John was also in service — as is shown in the 
Records and verified by Miss Robbins; Nathaniel Robbins wintered 
at Valley Forge, and Jeremiah was one of the crew of the frigate 
Confederacy. 

Ebenezer Robbins was a member of the Congregational Church 
at Ashford, and so consistent was his life with his profession that 
as his daughter states, "profanity was seldom ventured upon in his 
presence." He was as conscientious a citizen as he was brave as 
a soldier. Although living seven miles from the "polling place," 
yet he was never absent from a town meeting if a vote were to be 
cast. He was a Federalist, Whig, and Republican, always opposing 
slavery and prophesying that it would end in civil war. 

Self-reliance and self-respect and reticence seem to have been 
among the characteristics handed down by this soldier to his daugh- 
ter ; and it is a pleasure to place her name upon the Roll of Honor 
in the D. A. R. order as a worthy daughter of a Revolutionary 
father. 

Florence E. D. Muzzy. 

(MRS. ADRIAN J. MUZZY.) 

Authority for Ebenezer Robbins' services in War of the American Revolution: 
Connecticut Records. 
Connecticut Men of the Revolution, pp. 5, 89. 121, 544- 636, 657, 

663. 
Recollections and notes of Miss Mary J. Robbins. 



MARY AUGUSTA (STEELE) CLEVELAND 

JOHN STEEL— PATRIOT 



p 




i 



ARY AUGUSTA (STEELE) CLEVELAND is a de- 
scendant in the seventh generation of George Steel, 
who with his brother, John Steel, came with Roger 
Ludlow and others" in 1635 to Connecticut, where the 
name has since been continuously represented for two hundred and 
sixty years. John Steel, the patriot, was a copper-smith ; his second 
wife, the mother of Airs. Cleveland, our "Patriot's Daughter," 
was Lucy ( Smith ) Saxton, daughter of Ebenezer and Hannah 
(Weston) Smith, of Ashford. Conn. Their home was on the west 
side of the South Green in Hartford, where this youngest child, 
Mary Augusta, was born March 19, 1818. The household attended 
Christ Church, where Alary Augusta was baptized and confirmed, 
and where, on October 7, 1841, she married Charles M. Cleveland 
of old Winsted stock, who was becoming known in Hartford as a 
rising young journalist of literary tastes. Then, like their English 
ancestors, these young people turned their faces westward, going 
first to Xashville, Tennessee, whither with six others they drove 
with their own horses and carriages, the journey occupying thirty- 
two days, only one of which was rainy. Some carefully preserved 
letters give many interesting details of this journey, compared with 
which our modern trips seem rather trivial events. 

Mr. Cleveland soon made his permanent home in St. Louis, where 
he followed commercial reporting until his death. April 3. [861. 
His bereaved wife remained in the West until 1874. when she came 
to Winsted, where she now resides. 

Brought up in the Episcopal faith, Mrs. Cleveland was taught 
a reason for her belief, and exemplifies it by works of usefulness. 

* See early Connecticut history. 




MARY AUGUSTA (STEELE) CLEVELAND. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 163 

Her many years of childless widowhood have been solaced by deeds 
of benevolence and mercy, and in her old age she takes part in 
missionary and temperance work, and is faithful to every church 
observance. 

She was admitted to the National Society December 2, 1897, as a 
charter member of Green Woods Chapter, and on her membership 
application she wrote, "I am in my eightieth year." 

John Steel, the patriot, was a son of James Steel,* and was born 
( )ctober 9, 1759. He became a member of the State [Militia at an 
early age and went with the Thirteenth Regiment, Colonel Benjamin 
Hinman, through the Xew York and Long Island campaign of 1776. 
On June 3, 1777, at the age of seventeen, he enlisted "for three 
years or the war" under 

Captain Caleb Bull (Hartford?) (?) 

He was transferred to 

Captain Charles Whiting's (Middletown) Company 

in 

Colonel Samuel B. Webb's (Wethersfield) Regiment 

of Additional Infantry of the Continental Line. He served his full 
time as private soldier and mnsician.t and was discharged? June 
3, 1780. 

* Children of Jamc- Steel of Hartford: 

Jonathan, b. Fell. 16, 1751. 

Alary, b. May II, 1753. 

James, b. March 31. 1755. 

Ruth. b. Sept. 13, 1757. 

John, b. Oct. 9, 1759. 

Hepzibah. b. Feb. 26, 1762. 

Anne, b. May 26, 1765. 

George, b. June 4, 1766. 

William, b. April 19, 1769. 
tin the list of pensioners, John Steel is classed among the musicians, ill- 
application is on file in the county clerk's office, Hartford. See also Con- 
necticut Men in the Revolution, pp. 636, 666. His daughter knows that he 
was a musician in the army, and she remembers that he used to play for 
his children on a wind instrument. 

t Connecticut Men in the Revolution, pp. 246, 251. 



164 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

In July, 1782, John Steel married Sarah Bull (daughter of Aaron 
Bull), by whom he had the following children: 

John, b. Feb. 6, 1783. 
Samuel, b. Sept. 6, 1785. 
Manning, b. Jan. 17, 1787. 
George, b. July 3( ?), 1795. 
Rebecca, b. Jan. 23, 1797. 

No further information can be found in regard to these children 
by his first wife, the date of whose death is unknown. On July 21, 
1810, he married (2) Lucy (Smith) Saxton, widow, who was born 
in 1777, and died October 29, 1829. Their children were: 

Frances Ann, b. Marcb 2, 181 1 ; m. Henry Bolles of Hartford, son of Benj. 

and Mary (Morley) Bolles; d. May 8, 1891. 
Henry Tudor, b. Jan. 22, 1813; d. April 27, 1826. 
Mary Augusta, b. March 19, 1818; m. Oct. 7, 1841, Charles Miller Cleveland, 

son of James C. and Philenda (Miller) Cleveland of Winsted. 

John Steel died February zy, 1830, having survived his second 
wife but a few months. 

Emily Perkins Roberts. 

(MRS. HARVEY I.. ROBERTS. 1 



Xucretta Sbavv Chapter 

NEW LONDON 

SDaugbters of patriots 

CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA BURBECK HENRY BURBECK 

— Brevet Major 

HARRIET (FORSYTH) SMITH LATHAM FORSYTH 

CAROLINE (HOLT) CLARK EBENEZER HOLT 

ASENATH HOWE ISRAEL HOWE 



The inscription on the monument in Cedar Grove Cemetery, New 
London, erected in 1850, to Henry Burbeck — Patriot, is: 

Bvigabicr General ijcnrn Dnrbcck. 

Born in Boston, Mass., June 8th, 1754. 
Died at New London, Oct. 2nd, 1848. 

The Mass. Society of the Cincinnati dedicate this 
monument to the memory of their late honorable Presi- 
dent. He was an officer of the army of the United States 
from the Revolutionary War until near the close of his 
life. By a patriotic and faithful discharge of the trying 
and responsible duties of a gallant soldier, and an 
exemplary citizen, he became as justly and eminently 
distinguished, as he was rightfully and universally 
respected. 

Erected MDCCCL. 



CHARLOTTE AUGUSTA BURBECK 

HENRY BURBECK, BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL 

PRESIDENT SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI, MASSACHUSETTS 




ISS BURBECK was a daughter of Brevet Brigadier- 
General Henry Burbeck, whose service as an artiller) 
officer extended over forty years during one of the most 
interesting periods of American history, and whose ser- 
vices during the Revolutionary period were of great value to the 
cause. 

General Burbeck was born in Boston. }uuq 8, 1754. He spent 
the early years of his life at Castle William ( now Fort Independ- 
ence) in Boston harbor with his father as his instructor. ( )n May 
19, 1775. he received his first commission as Lieutenant of Artil- 
lery, signed by Dr. Joseph Warren, President of the Massachusetts 
Provincial Congress. 

He served throughout the siege of Boston and was promoted 
to the rank of First Lieutenant January 1, 1776. He was on duty 
in the Continental Army in Xew York City and in Xew York State. 
On January 1, 1777. he was promoted to the rank of Captain Lieu- 
tenant and shortly afterwards received instructions to join the army 
under Washington. Thenceforth his service during the war was 
constantly with the artillery of that army. He participated in the 
campaigns of the year 1777 in Pennsylvania, and was promoted to 
the rank of Captain; he was in the battles of Brandywine and Ger- 
mantown and in winter quarters at Valley Forge. He was also 
in the battle of Monmouth, and was with the army in the cam- 
paigns of 1779 and 1780 in Xew York and New Jersey, and in the 
operations in 1781 before the British lines in Yew York. lie was 
stationed in the Highlands of the Hudson until after the official 
announcement of the cessation of hostilities on April [8, [783. ( >n 
September 30, 1783, he was promoted to the rank of Major by 



168 patriots' daughters of Connecticut chapters 

brevet, and on November 23, 1783, he had the satisfaction of enter- 
ing the City of Xew York on its evacuation by General Sir Guy 
Carleton and the British forces. His subsequent artillery duty was 
at West Point until January 1, 1784, when he was honorably dis- 
charged after a continuous field service of nearly nine years. 

After the war. Major Burbeck continued in the army, doing 
excellent service and rising step by step, until he was appointed 
Brigadier-General by brevet on July 10, 181 2. When army reduc- 
tion was made in June, 1815, he was honorably discharged after 
a distinguished service of nearly thirty-eighty years. On July 4, 
1 8 1 6, he became President of the Society of the Cincinnati in the 
State of Massachusetts. He died at New London October 2, 1848, 
and the ( )rder of the Cincinnati of his native State erected a hand- 
some granite monument to his memory in Cedar Grove Cemetery. 

Charlotte A. Burbeck was born March 8, 1818. She inherited 
many of the traits of her father. His rectitude, patriotism, courtesy 
and sociability were strongly marked features also of her char- 
acter. For many years before her death Miss Burbeck was an 
invalid, but her unfailing cheerfulness and patience endeared her to 
many friends and made the care bestowed upon her by two brothers 
who survive her a loving service. She died at Xew London, July 
13, 1897, and was buried near the monument erected to her father. 

General Henry A. Burbeck, born June 8, 1754: married (1) 
Abigail Webb of Bath, Maine; married (2) Lucy E. (Rudd) Cald- 
well, widow of Captain Henry Caldwell, L T . S. Marine Corps, 
December 15, 1813 ; she died February 27,, 1880; he died October 
2, 1848. 

The children by his second wife (born to him after he was sixty 
years old ) were : 

Susan H.. m. Lieut. A. Kibby, U. S. A. 

Charlotte Augusta, b. March 8, 1818; d. July 13, 1897. 

Henry William, died young. 

Mary Elizabeth, m. Cliandler Smith of New York. 

William Henry, unmarried; still living (1904). 

John Cathcart, unmarried; still living (1904). 

Authority: Article' by Asa Bird Gardiner in Magazine of American History 
for April, 1883; and Family Records. 



HARRIET (FORSYTH) SMITH 

LATHAM FORSYTH— PATRIOT 




HE Forsyths came from the Highlands of Scotland, and 
were among the first settlers of Hartford, Conn, (about 
163;). 

Gilbert Forsyth is mentioned among the "Hatfield 
Souldjers" in 1675. He was in the "Falls Fight," May 19, [676. 
He was a resident of Hartford, Conn., 1682. 

James Forsyth, probably his son, married September 9, 1708, 
Hannah Lester, probably daughter of Andrew and Lydia Bailey 
Lester. They had twelve children. Timothy, their son (born Feb- 
ruary 13, 1718), married Ruth . 

Latham Forsyth, the patriot, was the son of Timothy and of 
Ruth Forsyth. Latham Forsyth was born in Montville, New Lon- 
don Countw Conn., in 1761, and died at Salem. Conn., October 3, 
1835. He entered the Continental Army in extreme youth, enlist- 
ing in New London and serving first tinder 

Captain Richard Deshon. 
He served* more than two years with the Connecticut State troops. 

* From Latham Forsyth's pension papers in the Pension Office at Wash- 
ington, D. C. 



Dates 
of 


Length 
Service 

6 months 

3 

6 " 

3 

3 " 


Rank 


Officers under whom Service 
was Rendered 


State 


Enlistments 


Captain 


Colonel 




1776 

1777 

1778 

1779 

1780 


Private Richard Deshon . . 

Nillett 

" Avery and Beehe. . 

Hardin 

Latham 


Seidell . . . 

Not stated 


Connecticut. 



Latham Forsyth's brother, named William, is also on the pension list of 
Connecticut Men in the Revolution. 




HOME OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY, SALEM, NEW LONDON COUNTY, CONN. 

(Front view. ) 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 171 

It was not until 1832 that he applied for a pension, and then only 
at the solicitation of a friend,* who remarked when Mr. Forsyth 
said he could live without it, "You are entitled to it, and I shall 
procure it for you," which he did, and, sending for Mr. Forsyth 
to receive the first payment, he pinned the hunch of hills inside 
Mr. Forsyth's coat so that they should not be lost. 

Mr. Forsyth was twice married, and seventeen children were 
born to him. 



The children of Latham Forsyth and his first wife, Eleanor Fox, 
were : 

Sarah, b. Oct. 7, 1785 ; m. Ralph Gillette. 

Elisha, b. Jan. 7. 1787. 

Thomas, b. July 23. 1791 ; m. (1) Esther, (2) Lucretia Browning. 

Ruth, b. Aug. 17, 1795; m. (1) Elias Jones, (2) Kellogg. 

Anna, b. July 3, 1796: m. Palmer. 

Eleanor, b. July 29, 1798; m. Dea. Elisha Congdon. 
Nabygail, b. Feb. 28, 1S00; m. Kellogg. 



The children of Latham Forsyth and his second wife, Abigail 
Lee.f were : 

Sanford. b. July 6, 1805. 

Maria, b. Feb. 28, 1807. 

Jane, b. Nov. 6, 1809; m. Russell Hinkley. 

Henry, b. March 20, 181 1; m. Caroline Caswell. 

Edmund, b. Aug. 27, 1813. 

Latham, b. Dec. 1, 1815. 

Harriet, b. March 20, 1817; m. Capt. Samuel P. Smith. 

George, b. Jan. 20, 1820; m. Julia A. Latham. 

Augustts, b. Sept. 23. 1823. 

Noyes, b. Oct. 13, 1826. 



* Major Perkins of New London. 

t Abigail Lee, daughter of Edgecomb Lee and of Abigail (Thompson') Lee. 



172 



PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



Harriet (Forsyth) Smith, the daughter of Latham Forsyth and of 
Abigail Lee, his wife, was born in Salem, Xew London County, 
Conn., March 20, 1817. She was married August 2, 1841, to Cap- 
tain Samuel Prentice Smith of Xew Loudon. She has no children; 
she makes her home in Xew London, where she is cared for by a 
niece who lives with her, and where she is cheerfully and peace- 




HOME OF THE FORSYTH FAMILY. 
(Rear view, showing the well-sweep.) 



fully passing her declining years, with her faculties unimpaired, and 
her interest in all current events unabated. Her life has been a 
tranquil one — with no stirring events to record, such as made her 
father's early life eventful, but the sturdy fibre of her character 
would prove her courageous and devoted if occasion called. Mrs. 
Smith was seventy-nine years of age at the time of her entrance 
into Lucretia Shaw Chapter. 



CAROLINE (HOLT) CLARK 

EBENEZER HOLT— PATRIOT 




AROLINE (HOLT) CLARK numbers among her ances- 
tors Elder Brewster of Mayflower fame and the 
Christophers and Manwarings so well known in the 
early annuals of New London. She is the daughter of 
Ebenezer Holt, 2d, of Xew London, and of Elizabeth Christopher, 
his wife. 

At the time of the burning of New London by Arnold, Elizabeth 
Christopher lived with her brother Peter in the old Christopher 
mansion still standing on Bank street. She was then fifteen years 
old, and taking her brother's children and a little slave girl, they 
left the house, carrying the family silver to a safe place in the out- 
skirts of the town. As the Christopher family, however, was per- 
sonally acquainted with Arnold, the house was saved by Arnold's 
orders in the general conflagration. 

Ebenezer Holt, 2d, enlisted at Xew London at the early age of 
seventeen years and served in Rhode Island. 

In 1778 two regiments of Connecticut Militia were in service in 
the State of Rhode Island ; one regiment* under Colonel Obadiah 
Johnson with five companies was stationed at Providence and was 
engaged for two months, arriving in camp in January. f 

In August (1778) another body of Connecticut Militia under 
Brigadier-General John Tyler (Preston) 
served in Rhode Island under 

Major-General Sullivan, 

and engaged in the attempt to dislodge the British from Xewport.f 

Ebenezer Holt, 2d, saw service in this regiment, commanded by 

Colonel Samuel Chapman (Tolland) 

Captain Seth W. Holmes' Company. 

* Benjamin Palmer and Hambleton Grant were in this regiment. See Anne 
Brewster Fanning sketch and Anne Wood Elderkin sketch. 
t Connecticut Men in the Revolution, pp. 525, 530. 



174 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

There were six other companies in this regiment," which was 
present at the battle of Rhode Island, August 29, 1778. 

Ebenezer Holt, 2d, was born August 15, 1760. He married June 
12, 1786, Elizabeth Christopher: he died June 30, 1835; she died 
June 18, 1851. Their children were: 

John C, b. May 2, 1787; d. in Martinique, July 29, 1809. 

Lucketia, b. Jan. 3, 1789; m. James Allen, Feb., 1815. 

Christopher, b. June 10, 1790; d. April 22, 1822. 

Joanna, b. Dec. 25, 1791 ; d. July 30, 1793. 

Joanna, b. Jan. 21, 1794; m. Jason A. Rodgers, March, 1816: d. Oct. 27, 1846. 

Elizabeth, b. Feb. 6, 1796; m. Lester Fox; d. Dec. 31, 1816. 

Mary Mumford, b. March 4, 1798: m. Enoch Ames. 

Abby Starr, b. Jan. 23,-1800; m. Feb. 5, 1832, Enoch Ames. 

Francis William, b. June 6, 1802; m. Jan. 4, 1832, Jane Harris. 

Caroline, b. Jan. 31, 1804; m. Charles H. Clark. 

Ebenezer, b. Sept. 27, 1805 ; d. Aug. 26, 1819. 

Mrs. Clark was born in Waterford, January 31, 1804, and died 
April 8, 1903, aged ninety-eight years. She married Charles H. 
Clark, who died in 1869. They had eight children, four daughters 
and four sons ;f of these two daughters and one son are living. Mrs. 
Clark lived in New London with her two unmarried daughters, 
passing her last days in peaceful day by day living. She was a 
communicant of the Episcopal Church, and until a few years ago, 
when she sustained a fall which prevented her from walking, she 
was accustomed to walk over a mile and a quarter to church, step- 
ping off so lightly that many a younger person paused when passing 
to admire her activity. The years dimmed but slightly her judg- 
ment, memory and ready wit, and she endeared herself to many 
hearts by her cheerfulness and unfailing faith. 

Mrs. Clark's application papers were accepted by the National 
Board of Management on May 2, 1895. 

Authority : Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution, page 532. 
Holt Genealogy. 

* Jonathan Hopkins and Samuel Davis were in this regiment. See Abigail 
Phelps sketch and Anna Warner Bailey sketch. 

t Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Clark's children were named and married, as 
follows: Frederick A., m. Rebecca Patt ; Julius A., m. Margaret Cook; Robert 
E., m. Susan Champion; Enoch Douglass, d. at seven years of age; Mary A.; 
Jane E. ; Caroline A., d. . 



ASENATH HOWE 

ISRAEL HOWE— PATRIOT 




SENATH HOWE, daughter of Israel Howe and of 
Hannah Washburn, his wife, was horn in Stafford, 
Conn., June 21, 1801. It is impossible to give the 
details of the Revolutionary services of her father, the 
patriot, as all his records, pension and business papers, Bible and 
familv records were lost in the fire that destroyed his home in his 
old age. He was born September 8, 1759. and entered the army* 
when about twenty years of age ; he was a pensioner under the 
Act of 1832, which proves that he served for more than two years; 
he is also on the list of pensioners of 1840 and is recorded as 
being then eighty-one years old. He was a member of the Militia 
Regimentf that served at West Point in September, 1781, under 

Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Canfield ( Xew Milford) 
Major Hezekiah Huntington (Windham). 

He was also for some time at Fort Griswold in Groton, Conn. 

Miss Howe remembered some of the tales her father used to tell. 
most of them relating to the time he spent at Fort Griswold in 
Groton. When there he helped to dig the well inside the fort 
"through the solid rock." An old letter gives her words, "some 
looked upon it as a fruitless effort ; one man made the remark that 
he hoped to die if they got a well of water, and be was taken at 
his word and died the day water was reached." While at Fort 
Griswold the men suffered from lack of food and often the soldiers 
raided the oven of a neighboring housewife, taking the bread she 
had made for her household, to some secret place where it could be 
eaten without discovery. 

* Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution, page- 581, 656, 665. 
t Azariah Sawyer and Job Candee were in this -aim- company. See Anne 
Wood Elderkin sketch and Sarah Ludlow sketch. 



176 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Miss Howe's life was spent entirely in Stafford. She was the 
only unmarried daughter in a family of twelve, and her life was 
spent in home duties ; the care of her parents, who lived to an 
advanced age, of an invalid brother and later of a blind sister, filled 
up the measure of her days. At the age of seventy-five she fell, 
injuring herself so seriously that for twenty years, she was obliged 
to live in an invalid's chair. She retained much of her mental 
vigor to the last, though sight and hearing were impaired, and in 
a voice that bore witness to its old time power and sweetness she- 
sang many of the hymns that had been dear to her for nearly 
a century. Miss Howe, at the age of ninety-four years, became 
a member of Lucretia Shaw Chapter (October 3, 1895), and prized 
highly the gift of the National souvenir spoon because of its signifi- 
cance. She died in Stafford, August 17, 1899, in her ninety-ninth 
year, at her death being the oldest person in the town. 

Israel Howe of Stafford, married Hannah Washburn, December 
2, 1784; died April 16, 1845. Hannah Washburn died August 27, 
1850. Their children were: 

Betsey, b. Feb. 16, 1785; m. James Paddleford ; d. May 23. 1X52. 
Polly, b. Feb. 16, 1785; m. Horace Orcutt ; d. Aug. 24, 1853. 
Asa, b. March 21, 1 7S7 ; m. Huldah Converse; d. Oct. 10, 1844. 
F1.1, b. April 2J, 1789; m. Alary Johnson; d. Aug. 27, 1X45. 
Hannah, b. 1791 ; m. Noah Cummings; d. Jan. 4, 1862. 

Lucinda, b. Feb. 17, 1794; m. (1) Pachard Edson, (2) George Puffer; d. 

Sally, b. Nov. 26, 1796; m. Daniel Edson; d. Nov. 17, 1857. 
Achsah, b. Dec. 16. 1798; m. James Francis; d. Nov. 25, 1S71. 
Asenathj b. June 21. 1801 ; d. Aug. 17, 1899, aged ninety-eight. 
Eleanor, b. Feb. 24, 1804; m. Marvin Cummings; d. Oct. 23, 1888. 
Parley, b. — — ; m. Rhoda Stroud; d. Dec. 24, 1871, aged sixty-five. 

Dabford, b. — —; unmarried ; d. Aug. 14, 1854. 

Alice Chew. 



Thanks are due to Mrs. Marion H. Lillie, Mrs. Ellen T. Frisbie, Miss 
Harriet E. Forsyth, Mrs. F. H. Shipman, for their assistance in preparing 
these sketches of the Lucretia Shaw Chapter. 



fll>av\> Sfllfman Chapter 



BRIDGEPORT 



H)augbter5 



of 



patriots 



CAROLINE (PINTO HUBBELL 



ABRAHAM PINTO 

SOLOMON PINTO 

— Ensign 

WILLIAM PINTO 



ABBY HOLT 



NATHANIEL HOLT 



AUGUSTA (WAY) TULLER 



ISAAC WAY 




CAROLINE (PINTO) HUBBELL. 



CAROLINE (PINTO) HUBBELL 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILY— PINTO 




N the membership roll of the Mary Silliman Chapter are 
the names of three patriots' daughters, who were for 
several years living links between the present and the 
eventful past, which our organization commemorates. 
Mrs. Caroline (Pinto) Hubbell was born in the "City of Elms" 
in 1819. Her father, William Pinto, was born December 16, [760, 
and died December 10. 1847, in New Orleans. Her mother was 
Lauretta Packard, the third wife of William Pinto. Caroline was 
one of seventeen children, and her early home was on State street, 
Xew Haven, just below her grandfather Jacob Pinto's house. 

Jacob Pinto was the first of his name in New Haven. His house 
was built in 1745, of brick which he imported from Holland, and is 
the oldest brick house in New Haven.* William Pinto was the 
youngest of several sons, all born in this house. He entered Yale in 
1773. with two of his brothers, at the age of thirteen, and graduated 
in 1777. When the British invaded New Haven in 1770. he and 
his brothers and many of the college men, graduates and under- 
graduates, armed themselves and took part in the struggle. One 
of his brothers was wounded in the knee and one was taken prisoner 
and carried to England. Later William Pinto was one of the gar- 
rison of the fort at New London. On the morning of the day when 
the fort was stormed, he was sent out with despatches, and thus 
escaped the massacre of the garrison (September 6, 1781). 

The three sons of Jacob Pinto, Abraham, Solomon and William, 
served in the army. Abraham Pinto enlisted July 8, 1775. and 
served to December 20, 1775, in the Seventh Regiment, commanded 
by 

Colonel Charles Webb 
Captain Eli Leavenworth (New Haven) Tenth Company. 

* Historical Landmarks of Connecticut, p. 10. This house is still standing, 
on the east side of State street, north of Grand street. Both Jacob Pinto's 
home and William Pinto's are still standing. William Pinto's garden was 
cut in twain by the Northampton Canal, in which are now the tracks of the 
Consolidated Railroad. 



I So PATRIOTS" DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

This regiment was stationed first at various places along the sound 
until September 14. It was then ordered to Boston Camps, and 
there adopted as Continental. 

Abraham Pinto is again mentioned as among the wounded at Xew 
Haven, July 5, I//Q. at the time of the invasion. In this list of 
casualties twenty-three are recorded as killed and twelve were taken 
prisoners. In the list of wounded. Dr. Daggett, the president of 
Yale, who headed a body of men in that memorable defense, is 
named first. There were fifteen wounded, and Abraham Pinto's 
name is twelfth. 

Solomon Pinto, the second son, is recorded as having been 
appointed Ensign, March 18, 1780, in the Seventh* Regiment, Con- 
necticut Pine 

Colonel Heman Swift (Cornwall). 

He was also in service and of the same rank from 178 1 to 1783 

Second Regiment, Connecticut Pine 

Colonel Heman Swift 

Captain Baldwin's Company ( Killingworth ) 

Ensign Solomon Pinto (New Haven). 

The three sons of Jacob Pinto were students at Yale College. 
Two, Solomon and William, were graduated in the Class of 1777. 
In the Yale Annals is the following statement, under Solomon's 
name. Class of 1777: "Solomon Pinto had a younger brother (Wil- 
liam ) as classmate. His older brother ( Abraham ) was also a mem- 
ber of Yale, but left without graduating.f 

"At the invasion of New Haven by the British, July 5, 1779, Solo- 
mon Pinto was taken prisoner, but released almost immediately. 
In March, 1780, he received an appointment as Ensign in the 
Seventeenth Connecticut Pine, but does not seem to have actually 
gone into the field until the following October, when the regiment 
was in the Highlands. He retired from service at the general dis- 
bandment in June, 1783, and returned to Xew Haven, where he 
afterwards resided. He died in Xew Haven, Alarch 18, 1824, in 
his sixty-sixth year." 

Solomon Pinto was a member of the Cincinnati and a pensioner 
of 1818. 

* For Solomon Pinto's enrollment in the Seventh Regiment, (not Seven- 
teenth as given in the Yale Annals) see Connecticut Men in the Revolution, 
page 218. f See the date of his enlistment above. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. [8] 

William Pinto entered Vale in 1773, and graduated in 1777. Of 
William Pinto the Yale Annals state: "He was noted while in 
College for his exquisite penmanship, and prided himself in his 
old age on having transcribed the Declaration of Independence at 
the time of its issue for President Daggett, and fur Governor 
Jonathan Trumbull. 

"Immediately after graduation he was engaged in teaching school 
in Groton. . . . He was on duty at Fort Trumbull in New 
London, and on the morning of September 6, 1781, carried the news 
of Arnold's invading expedition to Governor Trumbull at Lebanon. 

"After the war he went to the Island of Trinidad and there 
engaged in teaching school. Later lie formed a partnership with 
his brother Abraham and carried on the shipping trade between New 
Haven and Trinidad, thus becoming an extensive West Indian mer- 
chant. Later he returned to New Haven, but left here about [835 
for Xew York City. He finally removed to New Orleans, where he- 
died December 10, 1847, aged eighty-seven years." 

William Pinto was three times married and was the father of 
seventeen children. He married first Fanny Hamilton, by whom 
lie had six children ; second, Urania Clark, by whom he had three 
sons and three daughters, Edwin, Horace, Alfred, and Harriet ( who 
married a Harrison. ) * He was married to his third wife in 
New York City by Bishop Hobart on October 3, 1816. His third 
wife was Lauretta, daughter of Charles and Lydia (Drown ) 
Packard, of Norton, Mass. William Pinto was fifty-six years of 
age and his bride, "a noted beauty of Norton, Mass.," was nine- 
teen years old. By this marriage there were born five children to 
William Pinto, namely : 

Maria Louise, b. Sept. 2. 1X17. in New Haven; m. Feb. 14, [843, Stephen 

Decatur Button: d. May 23, 1N4S. 
Caroline, 1). July 30, 1819, in Xew Haven; m. list) Sept. 9, [838, John P. 

lladley of Xew York: m. (2d) Oct. 22, 1S55, in Brooklyn. X. Y.. Harvey 

Hubbell. Harvey Hubbell died July 2. [882, aged eighty-five year-. 
Charlks, 1). Aug. S. 1S21 : d. Aug. 20. [823. 
Francis Effingham, b. June 30, [823; m. Jan. 6, [852, Jessie Laimbeer of 

Amsterdam, X. Y. 
Augusta Lauretta, b. July 22, [824; m. Jan. 27. 1851, John Laimbei 

* The name- of William Pint"'- children by his first wife and of two daugh- 
ters by his second wife were sought for, but not obtained; the same i> true oi 
other data concerning William Pinto's children by hi- first and second n an 



152 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

William Pinto was said to be a person of fine and courteous man- 
ners, a true gentleman of the old school, and was held in high 
esteem as a citizen. 

Three children of the patriot are living ( 1904), namely, Caroline, 
Francis Effingham, and Augusta Lauretta Laimbeer. 

Francis Effingham Pinto was commissioned Second Lieutenant 
in the First Xew York Volunteers and promoted Brevet Captain 
during the Mexican War. He entered the service again during the 
Civil War as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Thirty-second Xew York 
Volunteers and was finally commissioned Brigadier-General. 

When fifteen years of age Caroline Pinto was placed in charge 
of her maternal grandmother in Brooklyn, while her parents took 
a voyage to Trinidad, West Indies, in one of their own vessels, for 
the benefit of her mother's health. In Brooklyn Caroline's educa- 
tion was completed and here was her home for many years. She 
has been twice married. 

Caroline Pinto, by her first marriage to John Hadley, had two 
children: George Francis, born June 10, 1839, living in Bridgeport; 
Thomas Jefferson, born October 20, 1840; died November 5, 1843. 

Caroline Pinto, by her second marriage to Harvey Hubbell, had 
three children: Carrie Lauretta, born September 9, 1856; died Feb- 
ruary 24, 1857 : Harvey Hubbell, born December 22, 1857, living 
in Bridgeport ; Carrie, born September 6, 1861 ; died December 1, 
1882. 

Mrs. Hubbell is a lady of fine mind and pleasing manners and has 
an abundance of this world's goods. Although in her eighty-fifth 
year, she is in touch with the events of the day. She superintends 
her city home in Bridgeport during the winter, and her country 
home in Long Hill (Trumbull) every summer, as devoted to the 
interests of her children and grandchildren as in her earlier days. 
Harvev Hubbell, one of her sons, is a member of the Connecticut 
S. A. R.. and her brother, General Francis E. Pinto, is a "patriot's 
son" in the Xew York Society of S. A. R. 

Authorities: Yale Annals, Class of i~77- 

Connecticut Men of the Revolution, pp. 84, 553; 218, 325, 360, 
373- 636; 63 r. 



ABBY HOLT 

NATHANIEL HOLT— PATRIOT 





ABBY HOLT, 
i Ninety-three years old. I 

HE first "real daughter" to enter the Mary Silliman 
Chapter was Miss Abby Holt. Her birthplace was "< lid 
Norwich Town," called the most picturesque town in 
Connecticut, and the birthplace of the first Revolution- 
ary Ode, "The American Hero." Miss Holt is ninety-three years old 
and is the youngest of the twelve children of Nathaniel and Abigail 
( Stanton) Holt. She was born ( >ctober 21, 1811, and was two and 
a half years old at the time of her father's death. Thenceforth, on 
account of their limited means, each of this numerous family of 
children was expected to assist the mother in the support of the 
family. Abby Holt's labors towards this end began when she was 
eight years of age. She remained in her native town until she was 
fifty years old. Then the book -bindery in which she was employed 
was removed to Xew York, and for several years she lived in New 
York. Then she came to Bridgeport, and here she has resided for 
twenty-five years. For the last eight year- she has lived in the 



184 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Widow's Home. Her life for three-quarters of a century was one 
of constant toil, which appears to have heen cheerfully borne, and 
she has often been able to confer benefits on those less fortunate 
around her. Her sunny face beams with patience and benevolence. 

Abbv Holt's father lived in those stirring days when our grand 
sires were struggling against British oppression. The desire to 
defend his country fired his young heart and he joined the Con- 
tinental Army in Captain Stanton's Company of Norwich. 

Colonel Henry Sherburne (R. I.) commanded one of the "addi- 
tional" regiments ordered by Congress for the Continental Army 
in 1777. Three of its six companies were raised in Connecticut 
under Lieutenant-Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs (Middletown). 
Nathaniel Holt enlisted first on April 3. 1778, in one of these com- 
panies, viz., that of 

Captain Amos Stanton (Groton). 

On Hay 1, 1780. this regiment was disbanded and the men dis- 
tributed among other commands. Nathaniel Holt and others were 
transferred to the regiment of 

Colonel S. B. Webb ( Wethersfield). 

Nathaniel Holt's next recorded service was from January 1, 1781, to 
December 31, 1781, in 

Colonel S. B. Webb's Regiment 
Captain Samuel William Williams' ( Wethersfield) Company. 

This was the eventful year of the war. In January the regiment 
went into winter quarters in Camp "Connecticut Village." The 
spring season was spent in drilling and fatigue duty. On June 21st 
the Connecticut Line marched for Peekskill. From here the troops 
moved down nearer New York and took position at Phillipsburg, 
near Dobb's Ferry (July, 1781). 

The French army under Rochambeau marched across Connecti- 
cut and took up their position with the Connecticut Line. With 
these combined forces Washington made a grand reconnoissance of 
the enemy's defences on New York Island, and then returned to 
Phillipsburg. On August 19, leaving General Heath in command 
on the Hudson, Washington besran his famous march southward. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 1 85 

which ended in the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown* (I >ctober 
19, 1781). 

Nathaniel Holt's term expired December 31, 1781. At its expira- 
tion he returned home and married Abigail Stanton, a descendant 
of the Thomas Stanton line. He died in Norwich, April 8. 181 4. 
before any pensions had been granted by Congress to surviving 
soldiers. A pension was, however, obtained for his wife, Abby 
Holt's mother, in 1840, when she was seventy-five years old, but 
death claimed her before she could enjoy its benefits. 

Authority for Nathaniel Holt's service and for widow's pension: Con- 
necticut Men in the Revolution, pp. 250. 335, 661. 

* Compiled from Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolution, pp. 303. 
304. 305- 



AUGUSTA (WAY) TULLER 

ISAAC WAY— PATRIOT 




HE oldest Patriot's Daughter in the Mary Silliman Chap- 
ter was Mrs. Augusta (Way) Tuller. In her ninety- 
third year she was in full possession of her faculties, 
and was able to attend church and the meetings of the 
Chapter. She lived ninety-six years and five months, and appeared 
many years younger. Mrs. Tuller was the youngest of thirteen 
children, and was born July 1 8, 1805, in a farm house amid the 
hills of "Ancient Historic Woodbury," Connecticut. She was the 
daughter of Isaac and Mercy (Baldwin) Way, and through her 
maternal grandparents, Ephraim and Sarah (Warner) Baldwin, 
Mrs. Tuller had a kinship with Colonel Seth Warner of Ticonderoga 
fame. 

Her father, at eighteen years of age, joined the army in 1775 
with other volunteers from W r oodbury. Mrs. Tuller recalled many 
stories told by her father, of the part he took in the battle of Bunker 
Hill ; of his march to the North with Colonel Hinman to strengthen 
the garrisons at Ticonderoga and Crown Point ; of the care of the 
sick ; of the pride he felt when called upon at one time to hold 
General Washington's horse, and of his being a pensioner. Both 
Mrs. Tuller and a grandson of the patriot remember his story of 
the defenses at Bunker Hill. Beef barrels were filled with sand and 
stood on the top of the hill in readiness to be rolled down upon 
the British. The same grandson* recalls the patriot's account of 
his gun bursting when firing in a skirmish ; immediately he picked 
up another gun and kept on firing, not aware that his gun in burst- 
ing had wounded his hand. 

Isaac Way was in the Fourth Regiment Continental Army com- 
manded by 

Colonel Benjamin Hinman ( Woodbury) 
Major Samuel Elmore (Sharon). 

* Deacon C. M. Minor of Bridgeport, who was thirty years of age when his 
grandfather died. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 187 

An account of the march of Colonel Hinman's Regiment to Ticon- 
deroga and of the Canada expedition is given in the 1 [inman record.* 
After their arrival at Fort George, before they sailed across Lake 
George for Ticonderoga ( as reported in Bayze Wells' Journalf ), two 
weeks were spent in making oars (at Kingsbury). On lulv 3d 
they "set sail over the Lake" ; on the 4th they "marched as far as 
Ticonderoga"; on the 5th Bayze Wells was detailed "Sergt. of 
fatigue party, which cut the road from Ticonderoga to the Point" 
(Crown Point). 

The account, as given in Bayze Wells' Journal, is a fair record of 
the services rendered by many of the private soldiers who marched 
from Connecticut at this time — Isaac Way going from Woodbury, 
Colonel Hinman's native town. Under date of September 7, 1775. 
Isaac Way's name is found on the list! of discharged men in Colonel 
Hinman's Regiment and among the sick bills§ of this year is one for 
the expenses of a man named Way of Colonel Hinman's Regiment — 
reported as being at Stillwater. 

Isaac Way || re-enlisted December 15, 1775. for one year in 

Colonel Charles Webb's Regiment 
Captain Nathaniel Tuttle's Company. 

They were in Boston Camps from December to March (1776). 
They then marched under Washington to New York and served 
in that vicinity from April to the close of the year (1776) ; assisted 
in fortifying the city ; ordered to the Brooklyn front August 27 : 
closely engaged in the Battle of White Plains, October 28.^" 

* Maria (Hinman) Pulford sketch, Melicent Porter Chapter. 

f Connecticut Historical Society. Collections, Vol. VII. Bayze Wells' 
Journal. 

± Connecticut Men of the Revolution, p. 63. 

§ Connecticut Historical Society's Collections. Vol. viii, p. 10. 

(| From Isaac Way's pension papers, Washington, D. C. 

Isaac Way applied for a pension from Woodbury in [820, at sixty-two 
years of age, and his claim was allowed. He enjoyed the pension twenty-seven 
years. His daughter was pensioned by special act of Congress at twelve dol- 
lars a month, commencing January 20. 1897, through the efforts of the Regent 
of the Mary Silliman Chapter. 

fl Connecticut Men of the Revolution, p. 104. 



1 88 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Isaac Way's pension papers mention also White Plains as a battle 
he was engaged in. 

Isaac Way was born in Harwinton in 1758. and died in Woodbury 
May 5, 1847, aged nearly ninety years. He married Mercy Baldwin, 
born April 1, 1762; died August 16, 1841. Their children were: 

Justus, b. Oct. 3, 1779; d. June 4, 1785. 

Axxis, b. Aug. 16, 1781 ; m. Stoddard Eastman and went West to live. 
Electa, b. June 21, 1783; m. Judson Minor; d. Nov. 11, 1870, in Woodbury. 
Justus, b. Oct. 5, 1785; d. Sept. 9, 1793. 
Ikexa, b. March 3, 1787; d. Dec. 9, 1851. 

John, b. June 26, 1790; m. Mary Northrup; d. June 23, 1834. 
Isaac, b. May 15. 1792; m. Betsey Coles. 
Hepzibah, b. Oct. 31, 1794; m. Solomon Hurlburt; d. 1826. 
Lewis, b. Oct. n, 1796; d. June 6, 1798. 

Sally, b. Aug. 26, 1798; m. George Hurd; d. Sept. 21, 1893. 
Maria., b. Nov. 2, 1800; d. Oct. 20, 1804. 
Eliza, b. Dec. 21, 1802; m. Rotus Gibson; d. Dec. 3. 1888. 

Augusta, b. July 18, 1805; m. Nelson Tuller, lived in Middlebury, died in 
Bridgeport. 
All of these children except Annis and Augusta lived, married and died in 
Woodbury. 

On May 28, 1844, Augusta Way married Nelson Tuller, a resident 
of Middlebury, where she spent many years. She was the third wife 
of Xelson Tuller, who had six children by his two previous mar- 
riages. Two children were born to Xelson Tuller and his wife, 
Augusta Way Tuller; Margaret Augusta, born June 28, 1846, in 
Middlebury, died in Hamden, December 10, 1873 ; Elizabeth Way, 
born April 15, 1848, in Middlebury, died in Xaugatuck, May 5, 
1858. 

Mrs. Tuller was a widow thirty years, and in her serene old age 
resided in the home of her step-daughter* in Bridgeport. She 
retained her faculties until her last illness, which was of a few days 
duration. She died December 14, 1901, in her ninety-seventh year. 

Jeannette Boot]}. 

* Mrs. Waller Lake. 



"The severest trials of the Revolution were not in the field, but in the 
squalid wretchedness of ill-provided camps where there was nothing to cheer 
and evervthing to be endured." 



fll>ar\> Moosteu Chapter 



DANBURY 



©augbtec of patriot 

LUCY MARIA OSBORNE LEVI OSBORNE 

— Surgeon's Assistant 




LEVI OSBORNE — PATRIOT. 




LUCY MARIA OSBORNE. 

(Ninety-six years old.) 

Photograph taken when Miss Osborne was eighty-one years old.) 



LUCY MARIA OSBORNE 

LEVI OSBORNE— PATRIOT 




HILE the flames kindled by Tryon and his men were 
destroying Danbury on that never to be forgotten day 
in April, 1777, a boy of fourteen years, Levi Osborne by 
name, stood on one of the hills overlooking the valley 
and watched the burning of his home and the destruction of the 
town. His heart was filled with bitter indignation against the 
enemies of his country, and he determined to do what he conld to 
drive out the hated invader. A boy of fourteen could not shoulder 
the heavy musket, but an opportunity came to him later to serve as 
surgeon's assistant under Dr. Cunningham in the hospital at Dan- 
bury (January 1st, 1780).* In the same year, when he was seven- 
teen, he enlisted as a private in Captain Baldwin's Company. 

In the Seventh Regiment "Connecticut Line" ( .1777-1781) com- 
manded by 

Colonel Heman Swift (Cornwall) 

were several officers from Cornwall, Goshen and Xew Milford. In 
the summer of 1780, this regiment served with the main army on 
the Hudson, and wintered in Camp "Connecticut Village." Levi 
Osborne enlisted in this Regiment, July 1, 1780 in 

Captain Caleb Baldwin's Company ( Killingworth) 

and was discharged December 9, 1780. His name is enrolled in 
the list of "Short Levies." v 

Levi Osborne was a native of Danbury, the son of Moses and 
Sarah (White) Osborne, and was born June 17, 1763. < )n Novem- 
ber 10, 1784, he married Miriam Dibble (born 1766), the daughter 
of John and Lydia (Ferry) Dibble, and they made their home in 
Danbury. Eight children were bom to Levi Osborne and Miriam 
Osborne, his wife : 

* From pension papers of Levi Osborne. 

f Connecticut Men of the Revolution, pp. 22J, 651. 



192 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Ika, b. March 19, 1785: d. in 1804. 

White, b. in Danbury, 1788: d. in Danbury in 1857, leaving a daughter who 

is ninety-one years old. 
Cynthia, b. in 1793; d. in 1888 at the age of ninety-five. 
Daniel, b. in 1795; d. in 1811. 
Sarah, b. in 1800; d. in 1887. 
Elizabeth, b. Aug. 16, 1802. 
Lucy M., b. T805 ; d. in infancy. 
Lucy Maria, b. in Danbury Dec. 3, 1807. 

For many years the Osborne home was the only residence in 
the north section of Danbury, — a quiet, picturesque spot, with broad 
meadows bordered by Lombardy poplars. 

Levi Osborne was deeply interested in religious matters. In 1817, 
he was conscientiously compelled to separate from the Sandemanian 
church with which he had been connected, and formed a new society 
which discarded all creeds, and followed the primitive order of 
worship. He was presiding; Elder of this organization, The Church 
of Christ, until his death. 

Miriam, the wife of Levi Osborne, died November 12, 1833, the 
day before the great meteoric shower. Mr. Osborne married the 
second time a widow, Mrs. Urania (Knapp) Judd, who died in 
1844. During the latter part of his life the old soldier received a 
pension. The pension application of Levi Osborne is dated July 25. 
1832, and the pension was granted one year later. He died March 
8, 1852, at the age of eighty-eight. 

The care of her aged father devolved upon Miss Osborne after 
the death of her mother. She opened a private school, and did her 
house work before and after school hours. Miss Lucy Maria 
Osborne is the only "Real Daughter" of the Danbury Chapter, 
which she joined March 10, 1896, at the age of eighty-nine. She 
is now in her ninety-seventh year, active in the home, and interested 
in all church work. She is ready and graceful in speech, gifted 
with her pen, loved and honored by all who know her. 

Miss Osborne is Honorary Chaplain of the Mary Wooster Chap- 
ter. During her several years of membership in the D. A. R. 
organization, she has served as Chaplain at two general state con- 
ferences in Danbury and Stamford, and a third time at a conference 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 193 

of regents and delegates. Her birthday anniversaries are remem- 
bered by the local chapter and on her ninety-sixth anniversary 
a reception and supper were given her by the Mary Wooster Chapter 
in its historical room in the County Court House. A presentation 
speech with gift was followed by a response from Miss Osborne, 
which, in the words of the Regent,* made "the occasion a memora- 
ble one" — "since few chapters have the privilege of having a 'real 
daughter' who could he present" at ninety-six years of age and 
make an address in public. 

//den Meeker. 
Authority: Connecticut Men of the Revolution. 

* Mrs. John Tweedy. 




SARAH (CURTIS) HINMAN. 
Wife of Colonel Joel Hinman — Patriot. 
(The mother of sixteen children.) 
(From a picture taken when she was about ninety years old. 



flDeltcent porter Chapter 



WATERBURY 



©augbters of patriots 

BENJAMIN HINMAN 

— Colonel 

MARIA (HINMAN) PULFORD JOEL HINMAN 

—Captain 

RHODA AUGUSTA THOMSON THADDEUS THOMSON 

—Drummer Boy 




MAKIA (HINMAN) PL'LFORD. 




MRS. MARIA (HINMAN) PULFORD'S HOME, SOUTHBURY, CONNECTICUT. 



MARIA (HINMAN) PULFORD 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILY— HINMAN 




WENTY-FIVE Hinmans served in the Revolutionary 

War, and there were more commissioned officers during 
the war, by the name of Hinman, in Connecticut than 
^ by any other name — thirteen in all. The town of 
Woodbury furnished one colonel, five captains, four lieutenants, two 
ensigns. 

The following paragraphs on Woodbury in the Revolution are 
taken from Cothren's History of Ancient Woodbury: "No colony 
was more liberal in furnishing supplies than Connecticut, and Wood- 
bury was a prominent point for their collection. The streets of the 
village, in those days, were piled high with barrels and hogsheads 
of pork, beef, lard, flour, and other military stores for the use of the 
army." 

"But Woodbury in a far more important manner contributed 
towards a successful issue of the dispute with Great Britain. . . . 
In the number and valor of her troops, it is believed that few towns 
of similar numerical strength can vie with her. A list of nearly 
one thousand of her sons is furnished who 'did battle for their 
country' and the list is by no means complete." 

"During the year 1781. the French army under ( ieneral La Fayette 
passed through this town | Woodbury] on their journey South to 
join (ieneral Washington in his operations against Cornwallis. . . 
The army encamped for the night in the town, . . . and when 
they pitched their tents, they extended . . . a distance of nearl} 
three miles. During the evening they had a dance, in which some 
of the W'oodbnry damsels joined with the polite French officers, in 
their gay uniforms, while others looked on." 

"Multitudes of the inhabitants pressed about the tents of those 
patriotic foreigners — who had come so far to light the battle ol 
freedom. La Fayette and his chief officers lodged at the house of 
Hon. Daniel Sherman, and was waited 011 by all the principal men 
of the town. . . . Fired anew with martial courage by the tine 
display of the French troops, a considerable number of soldiers 



198 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

volunteered on the spot and marched with them on the following 
morning." . . . 

"After the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. the army passed 
through the town again on their return to take ship for their homes." 

Colonel Seth Warner was a native of Woodbury, and of the 
many officers of the Hinman name, Colonel Benjamin Hinman 
stands first. 

Colonel Benjamin Hinman had a distinguished record, both in 
the French and Indian Wars, and in the early years of the Revolu- 
tion. He was born in 1720 in Woodbury. He served against the 
French in Canada in 175 1 , commissioned as Quartermaster; later 
he was commissioned Captain (1755). Major (1757), Lieutenant- 
Colonel (1758), and Colonel (1771). 

Preparatorv to the opening of hostilities, he was a member of the 
Committee of Correspondence of his town, appointed on 20, Sept. 
A.D. 1774. 

At the opening of the Revolution he was commissioned (May 1, 
1775) Colonel of the Fourth Connecticut Regiment. This regiment 
was raised on the first call for troops, April-May, 1775, and was 
recruited mainly in Litchfield County. On May 20, 1775, Colonel 
Hinman was ordered to march with five companies to rendezvous 
at or near Greenwich, and to send three companies to take post 
at Salisbury under Major Elmore. 

Upon the surprise at Fort Ticonderoga | May 10, 1775) Gov- 
ernor Trumbull had ordered this regiment to march as soon as 
possible to secure that fort and Crown Point against recapture. 
The regiment reached Ticonderoga in June and Colonel Hinman 
assumed command until the arrival of 

General Philip Schuyler. 

An account of their march is given in the journal of Bayze Wells* 
of Farmington, a sergeant in Captain Sedgwick's Company. Each 
day's march is given, beginning with June 3d, as follows : To New 
Hartford, to Canaan, to Sheffield, to Nobletown, to Claverack, to 
Schodack, to Greenbush, to Stillwater, to Saratoga, to Kingsbury, 
to Fort George, which is reached on June 18th (1775 ). 

In this journal all of Bayze Wells' orders are from Benjamin Hin- 
man, Colonel, until August 31, except one on August 26, when 

* Connecticut Historical Society, Collections, vol. vii. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 199 

the record reads: "By order of General MacPherson." Colonel 
Hinman's regiment took part in the Canada expedition of this year 
and was in service until the expiration of its term, December, 1775. 
Much sickness prevailed and many men were mustered out in Octo- 
ber and November. On the sick bills are the names* of one hun- 
dred and sixteen men from Colonel Benjamin Hinman's regiment, 
who are thus recorded as on the sick list. 

Benjamin Hinman was also in service in 1776 in the State Militia. 
There were twenty-eight regiments organized in 1775. His was 
the thirteenth, Major-General David Wooster commanding. In 
the summer of 1776 Washington needed a large force to meet the 
enemy's threatened attack on New York. Connecticut already had 
eight Continental and nine State regiments in the field, but she sent 
fourteen more to serve from August, 1776, "until the exigency was 
over."f 

The rolls of the Thirteenth Regiment at New York, 1776, under 
Colonel B. Hinman. are given in Connecticut Men of the Revo- 
lution. There were seven companies in which eight Hinmans are 
recorded as serving under Colonel Hinman, viz. : two captains, 
John and Elijah; three sergeants, Francis, Bethuel and Asa; and 
privates Isaac, Justus and Enos. 

Lastly Colonel Hinman is on record among the defenders of Dan- 
bury during Tryon's raid, April 25-28, 1777. The troops on the 
ground were mainly militia, but casualties were reported among 
the Continentals. On the only document preserved, which indi- 
cates what organizations were present during the Danbury defence, 
is the name, among others, of Colonel Benjamin Hinman, which 
appears for the last time and as at hospital.:!: 

Colonel Hinman returned to his home in 1777. in ill health, and 
did not again enter the army. He was then fifty-seven years old. 
Eleven years later (January 3, 1788), he was one of the members 

* See Connecticut Historical Society, Collections, vol. viii. p. [6 

t A few of these were exposed to the enemy's attack at Kip's Bay. Septem- 
ber 15, 1776. (See p. 22, footnote. I 

In October, 1776. Benjamin Hinman, a colonel in the Continental Army, 
was succeeded in his State Militia regiment by Colonel [ncrease Mosely, Jr. 
of Woodbury. 

$ Connecticut Men of the Revolution, pp. 12S. 492. Also Josiah Hinman, 
"Hospital," p. 493. 



200 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

from Connecticut at the convention which ratified the Federal Con- 
stitution.* His brother, Curtis Hinman, was nominated for gov- 
ernor of Connecticut in 1820, but died before the election. 

His son, Colonel Joel Hinman, is the patriot whose daughter 
lived to the end of the century and became a member of the Order 
of the D. A. R. 

Joel Hinman was born in Southbury, Conn.. April 8, 1748. He 

is on the records as an Ensign in the State Troops or Levies of 

1776, composed of regiments raised for temporary service. 

( ieneral James Wadsworth's Brigade 

Colonel Fisher Gay's (Farmington) Regiment 

Captain Edward Rogers' (Cornwall) Third Company 

Ensign Joel Hinman (Woodbury). 

This regiment served under Washington in New York on the Brook- 
lyn front and in the Battle of Long Island, August 27, in the retreat 
to Xew York, August 29 and 30, and in the retreat from New 
York City, September 15, and was with the main army at White 
Plains until their time expired on December 25, 1776. 

On April 27, 1777, at the burning of Danbury, Joel Hinman 
received a British ball in his left thigh, near the groin, which he 
carried thirty-three years. f 

In 1 78 1 a provisional regiment was ordered to be raised by the 
General Assembly, and "put in readiness to march on short notice 
in case his Excellency, General Washington, shall call for them." 
There were eighteen companies, Joel Hinman being a captain of 
one. His commission as captain of the Second Company in the 
Thirteenth Regiment of Connecticut was signed at Hartford, by 
Jonathan Trumbull, on June 3. 17824 

I 'T Colonel Benjamin's record in the French War, in the Revolution, 
and afterwards, see "A Historical Collection from Official Records, Files, etc., 
of the part sustained by Connecticut during the War of the Revolution." 
Compiled by Royal R. Hinman, Secretary of State. 1842. 

t The ball was extracted March 30, 1810, by a Southbury physician. Doctor 
Anthony Burritt, Sr., and is now in the possession of Miss Grace S. Pulford 
of Southbury, a granddaughter of the patriot. 

i In Cothren's History of Woodbury Joel Hinman is mentioned as serving 
in the Revolution under the title of Ensign. For his offices as ensign and 
captain see also Connecticut Men of the Revolution, pp. 395, 586. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 201 

Joel Hinman's later military and civil record is one of continued 
service and influence, covering in all a period of twenty-five years. 
His commission as Major of the Thirteenth Regiment of Militia 
was signed at Hartford, by Samuel Huntington, on June 4. 1790; 
his commission as Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Thir- 
teenth Regiment of Militia was signed at New Haven, by < Hiver 
Wolcott, on October 19, 1796. He was a member of Connecticut- 
General Assembly of October, 1704. May. 1795. and May. 1700. 

Colonel Joel Hinman and Sarah Curtis, daughter of Deacon 
Daniel and Sarah Curtis, were married April 10. 1778. They were 
the parents of sixteen children" : 

Daniel, b. Oct. 9, 1779; m. widow Susan (Wheeler) Scott, Jan. 11, 1806; 

d. Jan. 16, 1816. 
Anna, / twins, born \ Anna died in infancy. 

Irexa, ) April 24, 1781, ' Irenam. Capt. Eli Hall. May 8, 1806; d. Nov. 25, [864 
Jason, b. Nov. 13, 1782; m. Lucy Robinson. June 23. 1808; d. Nov. 19, 1861. 
Sally, b. Oct. 28. 1784; m. Jedediah Hall. April 21, 1806; d. Aug. 24. 1854. 
Curtis, b. Aug". 30. 1786; m. Sally Perry, Sept. 10. 1809; d. Dec. 28. 1820. 
Phebe, b. May 15, 1788; d. unmarried, April 13, 1872. 
Nancy, b. March 4, 1790; d. unmarried, April 5, 1881. 
Robert, b. April 6, 1792; d. unmarried, April 13. 1813. 
Sherman, b. Oct. 21. 1794: d. April 30, 1795 or 1796. 
Albert, b. Aug. 13, 1795; d. unmarried. May 12. 1X42. 

Sophia, b. April 30, 1797; m. Truman Mitchell, April 2, 1816; d. Nov. 1. 1861. 
Sherman 2d, b. April 9, 1799; d. unmarried in [832, 
Joel, b. Jan. 2j, 1802: m. Maria Scovill, Oct. 9, 1825; d. Feb. 21. 1870. 

Marietta, b. Oct. 20. 1X04: m. Isaac Johnson. : d. Sept. 17. 1864. 

Maria, b. May 0. 1807: m. Eliott Pulford, Oct. 6, 1834; d. June 1. 1897. 

Joel Hinman died in 1813. aged sixty-four. His widow lived to 
be over ninety years old. In 1850 (June 19), forty-three years after 
her husband's death, and nearly three-quarters of a century after 
the close of the Revolution, a certificate granting one hundred 
and sixty acres of land was issued by J. Minot, Commissioner, to 
"Sarah Hinman. Widow of Joel Hinman. Sergeant Revolutionary 
War." 

* Of all his large family, fourteen of whom lived t<> mature age, there lives 
to-day hut one male descendant bearing the surname of Hinman. Only one 
descendant i^ now living who bears the patriot's Christian name, namely, his 
great-great-grandson, Joel Hinman Codding, of Amenia, N. Y. 



2 02 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Sarah Hinman, the patriot's widow, was in many respects an 
extraordinary woman. She had fifteen children, who lived to be 
of lawful age. She possessed a firm constitution, a powerful mind, 
and a remarkably retentive memory. She clearly remembered her 
father's grandmother, and her stories of Indian atrocity. She lived 
to see her own great-grandchildren and was thus acquainted with 
seven generations in her family. 

Maria Hinman was the sixteenth child of Colonel Hinman and 
Sarah Curtis, his wife. She was born May 6, 1807, on tne farm 
lying on the Pomperaug River, one mile below the present center 
of Southbury. Nothing remains of the home but the cellar and 
the well, to mark the spot where man}' of the Hinman name first 
saw the light. Joel Hinman moved to the home of his father. 
Colonel Benjamin Hinman, when the subject of this sketch was 
five years old. This house was situated in a fine central location, 
north of the Congregational Church. Here his daughter Maria 
married Eliott Pulford, October 6, 1834, and moved to her new 
home not more than a stone's throw away, where for more than 
sixty years she dispensed hospitality to old and young, rich and 
poor. They were the parents of two children : Julia Maria, b. July 
18, 1840; m. Charles S. Brown, June 3, 1862 and has a son, Harry 
Hinman Brown ; Grace Sophia, b. October 20, 1847. 

Mrs. Pulford was always a much loved neighbor and friend, 
and a favorite with children. She never tired of talking over 
Revolutionary times, and the day she joined Melicent Porter Chap- 
ter seemed the happiest of her life. She was admitted to the 
National Society October 1, 1896. On May 31, 1897, in her ninety- 
first year, she rode two miles to witness the placing of a stone 
on the site where the first settlers encamped in 1673, as they came 
from Stratford to Woodbury, and none enjoyed the memorial cele- 
bration more than she. The next day, June 1, 1897, she went out 
to dinner in her usual health and good spirits, finished the meal, 
and suddenly passed away. 

Katherine Prichard. 

Irene H. IV. Codding. 
Grace S. Pulford. 



RHODA AUGUSTA THOMSON 

THADDEUS THOMSON— PATRIOT 



S&g 





HADDEUS THOMSON (born in 1762) enlisted as a 
drummer boy in the Revolution and endured the priva- 
tions incidental to army life until the close of the war. 
There is a tradition in the family that he beat the 
death roll at the execution of Major Andre. At the siege of York- 
town he was wounded by a cannon ball while bringing bundles of 
poles to lay in the earthworks. But his disability could not pre- 
vent him from sharing in the general feeling of joy at the prospect 
of a cessation of hostilities, and the return of peace and harmony 
throughout the land. 

It is said he remarked that "although the worthless Continental 
currency which he received as a compensation for all those years of 
service would not buy him a dinner, yet he never regretted joining 
the army and assisting in destroying the power and authority of 
Great Britain over the American Colonics." 

The drum head, that had so often resounded with the call to 
arms, he made into a pocket-book at the close of the war, and it is 
now in the possession of one of his descendants. His prayer book 
is owned by one of his lineal descendants,* while his daughter 
Rhoda has his Revolutionary pension certificate which entitled him 
to ninety-six dollars annually during his life, an annuity which was 
restored to Miss Thomson by special Act of Congress, signed by 
President Cleveland. 

Thaddeus Thomson was a descendant of Anthony Thomson, one 
of the founders of the New Haven Colony, a signer of tin- original 
Compact June 4. 1639 (Anthony 1 , John 2 , John 3 , Daniel'. Daniel 5 , 
Thaddeus ). 

Thaddeus Thomson was a man of literary tastes and possessed 
a library of valuable books. In an old book still in existence, he 

:;: Miss Eunice Huntington of Woodbury. 



204 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

has left a complete record of himself and family, as follows (the 
death dates after 1829 being supplied from other sources) : 

"Thaddeus Thomson was born in Bethany in New Haven County, March 
5, 1762: was married to Hannah Perkins, October 20. 1785, who was born 
March 24, 1765." 

Children by this marriage: 

Lucy, b. July 22, 1786; d. Nov. 13, 1828. 

Thaddeus, b. Aug. 19, 1788; d. March 15, 1877. 

Charles, b. Aug. 19, 1790; d. Aug. 6, 1874. 

Bela, b. Dec. 29, 1792; d. March 26, 1869. 

Haxxah, 1). Dec. 20, 1794; d. June 4, 1795. 

[saac, b. Sept. 9, 1796; d. April 21, 1873. 

Hannah Lucretia. b. March 19, 1799; d. Jan. 7, 1883. 

"On the 8th of February, 1800, departed this life my beloved wife, Hannah 
Thomson, in the 35th year of her age. June 16, 1800 I was married to Rhoda 
Sperry who was born November 29. 1778." 

Children : 

Eunice, b. April 17, 1801 ; d. Dec. 21, 1870. 

April 25, 1802, we had an infant born which lived 44 hours. 

James, b. Aug. 17, 1803; d. June 25, 1880. 

George, b. Jan. 25, 1806; d. Sept. 23, 1850. 

Caroline, b. Aug. 1, 180S; d. Feb. 19. 1835. 

Susannah, b. Jan. 29, 181 1 ; d. Dec. 24, 1847. 

Patience Amanda, b. March 5, 1814; d. Nov. 25, 1877. 

William Peters, b. June 25, 1815; d. Oct. 2, 1872. 

Thomas Merritt, b. Dec. 18, 1819; d. June 6, 1894. 

Rhoda Augusta, b. June 1, 1821 : now in full life. 

"On the 15th of August, 1828 departed this life my beloved wife, Rhoda 
Thomson. A sincere Christian without guile." 

Thaddeus Thomson lived to see his country fully established as 
a nation, and rejoicing in its prosperity, he passed away on the 
[6th of June, 1829, aged sixty-seven years, at Woodbridge, Con- 
necticut, and was buried in Bethany, Connecticut. 

Rhoda Augusta Thomson was born in Woodstock, Ulster County, 
New York, on June 1, 1821. Left motherless when seven years of 
age she was placed with her older sister* in Woodbury, Connecticut, 
where she remained for many years. 

* Mrs. Norman Parker. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



Later she visited Iowa and taught school there, until her younger 
brother's wife died, and she was called to Alabama to care for his 
three motherless children. In [856 she brought the children North, 
a journey of no small difficulty, and lasting a week. Miss Thom- 
son has ever been as one set apart to serve others, and be it in 
northern New York or Iowa, in Alabama or Woodbury, she has 
fulfilled her mission. 

She was admitted to the Xational Society February 1. 1894, and 
her Xational number is 4393. She is among the earliest patriots' 
daughters to be enrolled. One other member of her father's family 
was then living, namely her brother, Thomas Merritt, who died 
the following June. 

Emily Goodrich Smith. 
Minot L. Beardsley. 

Helen E. Huntington. 

(MRS. JAMES HUNTINGTON.) 



^ 4P* 





JULIETTE BETTS. 
(The First Patriot's Daughter in Connecticut Chapters.! 



IRovwalfc Chapter 



NORWALK 



Daucibters of patriots 

HEZEKIAH HANFORD 

JULIETTE BETTS HEZEKIAH BETTS 

— Sergeant 

CHARLOTTE (KEELER) RAYMOND JUSTUS KEELER 




THE THOMAS EETTS HOMESTEAD, BUILT IN 1779- 



JULIETTE BETTS 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILIES 
HANFORD— BETTS 




ISS JULIETTE BETTS was the first Patriot's Daugh- 
ter in Connecticut to become a member of the D. A. R. 
Order (her National number is 2480), and in the 
National Society there are only four earlier admissions 
of Daughters of Revolutionary Soldiers. 

Juliette Betts was born in Norwalk, March 3, 1805, and died 
September 17, 1896, in her ninety-second year. She was the last 
surviving daughter of a Revolutionary soldier in the town of Nor- 
walk, and an honored member of the Norwalk Chapter, which she 
joined in 1893, at the age of eighty-eight. 

Miss Betts' genealogical line of descent includes the names Betts, 
Hanford, Benedict, Hoyt and Marvin — names found on many pages 
of Norwalk 's early history. 

Her father, Hezekiah Betts, was descended from Thomas Betts, 
1 st, who came to Norwalk from Guilford in 1650 with Mary, his 
wife. Their son, Thomas Betts, 2d, married Sarah Marvin, daugh- 
ter of Matthew Marvin. Thomas Betts, 3d (born 1 7 1 7 ) , married 
May 22, 1748, Elizabeth or "Betty" Benedict, the daughter of 
Captain Thomas Benedict. Their children were : 

Betty, b. ; d. Jan., 1769. 

Esther, b. i/49- 

Thomas., b. Nov. 14, 1753; d. Jan. 17, 1813. 

Lydia, b. 1755. 

Susannah., b. 1757. 
Hezekiah, b. July 31, 1760. 

Hezekiah Betts, the patriot, born in i7<><>, was only sixteen years 
of age when, in October, 1776, he enlisted in a company raised by 
Captain Jabez Gregory just after the battle of White Plains. This 
companv was never ordered out and was discharged three months 
later, January, 1777. 



2IO PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

( )n July ii, 1780, Hezekiah Betts again enlisted and was made 
Sergeant in the Second Regiment of the Connecticut Line. He 
enlisted for three years and served until the close of the war. He 
was present at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Years 
afterwards he told his children that he saw more people on that 
day than he ever expected to see until the Day of Judgment. 

Hezekiah Betts, though a soldier, had a tender heart. When 
his children asked him if he had ever killed a man in the war, he 
confessed that after he took aim he always shut his eyes for fear 
he should see the effect of the shot. 

Hezekiah Betts married October 1, 1785, Grace Han ford, a daugh- 
ter of Hezekiah and Deborah (Hoyt) Hanford, and a lineal descend- 
ant of Thomas Hanford, the first minister of Norwalk, who was 
a notable figure in Norwalk for forty years. 

Grace Hanford's father, Hezekiah Hanford, served in the Coast 
Guards during the Revolution in the company of 
Captain Eliphalet Lockwood. 

Her oldest brother was taken prisoner when Norwalk was burned in 
1779, and detained six weeks on Long Island. On the day that 
Tryon burned Norwalk (July 11, 1779), Hezekiah Hanford was in 
the field ploughing with a yoke of oxen. He succeeded in driving 
his oxen to a place of safety in the woods on Blue Mountain. His 
daughter, Grace Hanford, was a girl of fourteen and went with 
neighbors to the woods near "the Rocks" for safety, and from here 
the people of Norwalk watched the flames destroying their homes. 

The children of Hezekiah and Grace (Hanford) Betts (born 
October 5, 1765), who were married October 1, 1785, were: 

Alfred, b. Sept. 2, 1786. Xexophon, b. Sept. 22, 1799. 

Amaryllis, b. June 2X, 1788. Eulalia, b. Oct. 13, 1802. 

Robert \Y., b. Aug. 23. 1790. Juliette, b. March 3, 1805. 

Mehitable, b. Nov. 25, 1792. Harriet, b. May 8, 1807. 

Henry, b. Nov. 26, 1794. Solomon E., b. Dec. 23, 1809. 
Eliza Susan, b. July 8, 1707. 

Hezekiah Betts died May 31, 1837. 

The following is from Selleck's History of Norwalk : "The family 
of Captain Hezekiah Betts was one of Norwalk's worthiest house- 
holds, and the home abode of peace and piety. Its paternal head 
was also an intense patriot. Himself and cousin, Captain Stephen 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 211 

(captain of militia at the burning of Norwalk), were soldiers from 
their youth. Both were strong characters. Hezekiah was a Puri- 
tan and Stephen a churchman. One loyally observed Thanksgiv- 
ing Day, the other mingled tansy with his food on Good Friday. 
The two were noble men and left a noble record. Of Hezekiah 
it is mentioned that tears would fill the old veteran's eves when 
the night of July 3d set in and the children had, seemingly, so far 
forgotton their father's struggles as to neglect to ring the church 
bells, and kindle independence bonfires." 

The present Betts house in France Street supplanted the house 
of the patriot's father, Thomas Betts, and was erected on the same 
site in 1779. The present house was built around the old Revolu- 
tionary chimney, the flue of which was removed some years since, 
for the sake of room. 

Miss Betts, when she was a small child, was one day reading 
aloud from a book about the Revolutionary \Yar ; it was an account 
of the army crossing a river, and her father, Hezekiah Betts, who 
was listening, exclaimed, "I was there," which deeply impressed 
her imagination. 

Her home during her entire lifetime was the Betts homestead," 
originally built about 1660 by one of her ancestors, partially burned 
during the Revolution, and afterwards rebuilt. During the Civil 
War the house was the center of loyal feeling, and among its guests 
were General O. S. Ferry, afterwards a Senator, Major-General 
YV. T. Clark of General McPherson's staff, Colonel R. H. Sawyer 
of General Sherman's staff, and Major W. R. Long of General 
Neill's staff. 

Miss Betts' noble character, her deep religious nature and her 

sweet disposition endeared her to all who knew her. She joined 

the First Congregational Church in her early youth, and was its 

oldest member at the time of her death. For forty wars Miss Betts 

sang in the volunteer choir of the church. Her sister. Susan Betts, 

who conducted a private school in Xorwalk for many years, started 

the first Sunday School in the town, in 181 7. 

Angelme Scott. 

Authority for the ahove : Hall's History of Xorwalk. Selleck's History of 
Norwalk. Family history. 

After Miss Rett-' death Iter portrait and a memorial inscription v. 
framed in oak taken from one of the beams of the old house, and presented 
to the Xorwalk Chapter. 




CHARLOTTE (KEELER) RAYMOND. 



CHARLOTTE (KEELER) RAYMOND 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILY— KEELER 




ORWALK CHAPTER was honored on February 20, 
1900, by the accession to its membership of Mrs. Char- 
lotte (Keeler) Raymond, who was at that time eighty- 
one years of age. 

Mrs. Raymond comes of an honored ancestry. The Keelers were 
prominent in early Norwalk history, and were granted lands for 
their public services. They also held responsible positions in the 
church, and were sent as members of several important committees 
to the neighboring towns in council. 

Ralph Keeler (born in 1613) is mentioned in Hartford records in 
1645 as a "viewer of chimneys." He came to Norwalk in 1655. 
He married Sarah Whelpley of Fairfield. Of John Keeler, their 
son, the record says "he tooke to wiffe Hittabelle Rockwell" on the 
18th of June, 1679. John Keeler, 2d, married Rhoda Hoyt, April 
19, 1 710, and settled on Belden Hill, then in the town of Norwalk. 
In 1726 this locality was called Wilton Parish. In 1802 it became 
the town of Wilton. 

Jehu Keeler married Lydia Lockwood of New Canaan, and lived 
in the homestead which was burned down in 1744, was rebuilt on 
the same site and has sheltered the Keeler generations for more than 
a century and a half (T744-1900). 

Jehu and Lydia (Lockwood) Keeler had the following children: 

John, b. March 29, 1741. Lyddia, b. Feb. 5, 1748. 

Lyddia. Justus, b. May 21, 1750. 

Martha, b. Aug. 8, 1744. James Lockwood, b. Feb. 13, 1752. 

Stephen, b. May 23, 1746. Isaac, b. March 9, 1754. 

The name of the first daughter Lydia is not on the Wilton Parish 
church record, from which the above is taken. She was baptized 
January 16, 1743. Among the death records is the following: Octo- 
ber 23 1744 "Died Lydia, daughter of Jehu Keeler. in the flames of 



214 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

his house which was then burned down nearly two years." It was 
in corn-husking- time, according to family tradition, that this double 
tragedy occurred in the Keeler family. 

In 1759 the oldest son of Jehu and Lydia (Lockwood) Keeler, 
John, eighteen years old, served in the French and Indian war, and 
marched in the expedition against Quebec. He died in the service. 

At least twenty-four Keelers served in the Revolution, several 
as officers, commissioned and non-commissioned. 

Justus Keeler the patriot served twice in the Connecticut Militia, 
in 1776 and in 1777 — both short terms — first in the Ninth Regi- 
ment, commanded by 

Lieut. -Colonel John Mead 
Captain Samuel Comstock's Company. 

Justus Keeler "marched" August 12, and was discharged Septem- 
ber 17 (1776). He was probably in the Kips Bay panic :;: and is 
known to have been taken prisoner. 

In 1777 several regiments of the Connecticut Militia were ordered 
to reinforce Putnam on the Hudson during the Burgoyne cam- 
paign. Two brigades under Major-Generals Silliman and Ward 
constituted the force. Here, again, was the regiment of 

Colonel John Mead 
Captain Nathan Gilbert's Company 

in which company Justus Keeler "marched" October 5, and was 
discharged October 30. Of the fifty-three men in this company, 
about forty deserted. Justus Keeler served until honorably dis- 
charged. 

In 1900 the old Keeler Inn was still standing on Belden Hill in 
Wilton, one of the interesting Colonial houses in Fairfield County. 
Its great chimney, fourteen by sixteen feet in size, had four flues 
in it and two large ovens. The back-logs, in former days, used to 
be drawn into the fireplace by horses. 

After the war Justus Keeler returned to the old homestead on 
Belden Hill and for many years lived a bachelor. One day, his 

* See Mahala Terry sketch, Abigail Phelps Chapter. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



2I 5 



future mother-in-law, Mrs. Betty Olmstead, said to him in raillery, 
"Why don't you marry?" and he replied, "My wife isn't born vet," 
which was very true, as Mrs. Olmstead's daughter, whom he finally 
married, was not then horn. More than ten years later, a laughing 
school-girl, Charlotte Olmstead, when visiting in the Keeler house 
with some friends, put the same question to her host, unwittingly 




PATRIOT JUSTUS KEELER' S ANCESTRAL HOME. 
(Built in 1744.) 

repeating her mother's question of years before, and Mr. Keeler 
answered, "You will do for me, bye and bye!" So it proved. 
When sixty-seven years old Justus Keeler married (on September 
10, 1817) Charlotte Olmstead, daughter of Asa and Betty (Stuart) 
Olmstead, being nearly forty years older than his bride (born 
September 10, 1788). 

Two children were born to them : Charlotte, born February 20, 
1819; Frances Lydia, born March 28, 1821. In her girlhood 



2l6 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Charlotte Keeler taught in the district school for several years, and 
on September 20, 1837, she was married to Thomas Merwin Ray- 
mond.* Most of her life has been spent in her birthplace, the old 
Keeler house, where her father died October 23, 1821, in his seventy- 
second year. Charlotte, his wife, died March 22, 1872, aged ninety- 
three years and six months. Mrs. Raymond now lives in a house 
lately built on the site of the original homestead. 

There were born to Thomas and Charlotte Raymond : 

Charlotte Agnes, b. Aug. 15, 1838. Henry Merwin, b. Aug., 1844. 
Frances Celia, b. Nov., 1839. Harriet Maria, b. Aug., 1846. 

Justus Keeler, b. Aug., 1842. Katharine Jane, b. Nov., 1848. 

In 1865 Mrs. Raymond lost both her son Henry, and a son-in- 
law, Jacob Fowler, in the Civil War. They both served in the 
regiment of Colonel Fowler from South Norwalk. Henry Ray- 
mond was wounded in the battle of Newbern, South Carolina, and 
died in a Southern hospital, aged twenty-one years. 

A 11 gel i 11c Scott. 

Authority: Wilton Parish Church Records. 
Hall's History of Norwalk. 
Selleck's History of Norwalk. 
Mrs. Edward Olmstead. 

* Born May 8, 181 1, and died April 16, 1882. 



©rforb parish Chapter 

SOUTH MANCHESTER 

2>augbters of Ipatviols 

MARY (HOLL1STER) PITKIN ^ 

JOSIAH HOLLISTER 
( 
HARRIET HOLLISTER J 

LYD1A (ALEXANDER) COUCH THOMAS ALEXANDER 




MARY (HOLLISTER) PITKIN. 
(From a photograph taken when Mrs. Pitkin was ninety-eight years old.) 



MARY HOLLISTER PITKIN 
HARRIET HOLLISTER 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILIES 
HOLLISTER— PITKIN 




RFORD PARISH CHAPTER had enrolled among its 
members three patriots' daughters, Mrs. Mary (Hollis- 
ter) Pitkin, her sister, Miss Harriet Hollister, and Mrs. 
Lydia (Alexander) Couch. 
Mrs. Pitkin and Miss Hollister were daughters of Josiah Hollis- 
ter, and of his second wife, Asenath Sweetland. Josiah Hollister 
was born in Glastonbury, Conn., February 21, 1756, and early in 
the war enlisted in the State troops,* serving in 

* From Collections, Connecticut Historical Society, vol. viii ; Revolution 
Rolls and Lists, 1775-I/83, p. 137. 

State Troops, 1776. Second Battalion — Col. Gay. Seventh Company— 
Capt. Welles. 

An account of twelve Blankets hired or impressed by the Selectmen of 
Glastenbury and delivered to Soldiers of Capt. Samuel Welles' company, Col. 
Gay's Reg 1 . 1776. 



To whom delivered 
Benjamin Howard 
Richard Smith 
Joseph Brooks 
Benjamin Hale 
Stephen Couch 
Jesse Churchill 
Elihu Smith 
Josiah Hollister 
Jonathan Gains 
Josiah Loomis 
Lemuel Tubbs 
Thomas Morley 



their casualties. 

Lost with him when he died, supposed buried in it. 

Lost in Retreat from Turtle Bay, September. 15, 1776. 

Lost in Retreat from Turtle Bay, September 15, 1776. 

Buried with him. 

Lost in Retreat above mentioned. 

No account of and to be paid for. 

Lost in Sd Retreat. 

Lost in Sd Retreat. 

Lost in Sd Retreat. 

Shot to pieces. 

No account of and to be paid for. 

Lost in Sd Retreat. 
Capt. Welles was taken prisoner Sept. 15, '76; exchanged June, '78. 
On the same page is given, under Appraisement of the Soldiers' Guns under 
Com'd of Capt. Sam 1 . Welles, the names of the Glastonbury soldiers. 



2 20 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Colonel Gay's Regiment 
Captain Samuel Welles' Seventh Company. 

This company was at New York and took part in the operations 
at Turtle Bay* on the East River. The year following Josiah Hol- 
lister enlisted in the regiment of ''Artificers," on Februarv 7, 1777, 
term for the war, in 

Captain Clark's Company 
Lieutenant John Spencer (East Hartford). 

A large number of officers and men were from Connecticut. The 
regiment was at Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth and in 
other battles. f These artificers were skilled workmen — carpenters, 
builders, tent-makers, tailors, etc., and Josiah Hollister, when with 
the regiment 1 at Valley Forge, must have been favorably noticed 
by General Washington, as he was detailed to build a wardrobe 
for Martha Washington, which gave to her great satisfaction, and 
to him a pleasure which lasted a lifetime, for he was never tired 
of telling of this honor. 

He made application for a pension^ August 15, 1832, at which 
time he was seventy-six years old and living on his farm in South 
Manchester. This claim was allowed for two years' actual service 
in the Revolution, stating that his enlistment was from Glastonbury 
and service, part of the time under Captain Welles and Colonel Gay. 

Josiah Hollister was tall, straight, strong and ambitious, and 
retained good health and memory until his death, September 8, 
1849, m ms ninety-fourth year. Orford Parish Chapter has placed 
a Revolutionary marker on his grave in the old part of the East 
Cemetery in Manchester in recognition of his services to his country. 

Josiah Hollister's first wife, Mary House, § daughter of Daniel 
House of Glastonbury, was born September 15, 1760; she died July 
15, 1786. In the same year he married, second, Asenath Sweetland, 

* Turtle Bay is on the East River, two miles north of Corlaer Hook. Its 
name is a corruption of the Dutch "Deutel Bay," or Wedge Bay. 

t From Connecticut Men in the Revolution, p. 293. 

i From Connecticut Men in the Revolution, p. 652. 

§ The name of Mary, the first wife of Josiah Hollister, his wartime mate, 
appears in the list of "Orford Parish Revolutionary Women.'' See Patron 
Saints, p. 470. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 22 1 

born September 16, 1763, daughter of Israel Sweetland of Manches- 
ter (then called Orford Parish), and settled on a farm in that 
place.* Their family consisted of thirteen children, two of whom 
attained even greater length of days than their soldier father ; Mary, 
who lived to be nearly one hundred years old, and Harriet, who 
died at ninety-seven years of age. The following is a list of Josiah 
liollister's children:! 

By the first wife. Mar} - (House) Hollister : 

Dency, b. March 1, 1781 ; m. Samuel Pratt. 
Josiah, b. Aug. 23, 1783; m. Phoebe Rich. 

By the second wife, Asenath (Sweetland) Hollister: 

Pierpont, b. Jan. 7, 1788; m. Martha Wallace. 

Grove, b. Jan. 29, 1790; m. (1) Rhoda Wallace, (2~) Alary Cooler. 

Orrin, b. Jan. 29, 1790; m. Rebecca Carroll Rich. 

Horace, b. Nov. 5, 1791 ; m. Ruth P. Rich. 

Eleazur, b. March 9, 1794; m. Caroline M. Hubbard. 

Hannah, b. March 9, 1794: m. Peregrine Miner (who was blind). 

Aaron, b. April 20, 1796; ; d. 1797. 

Mary, b. Aug. 30, 1798; m. Joseph Chester Pitkin; d. Nov. 14, 1897. 
Asenath, b. June 21. 1801 ; m. Ogden Spencer. 

Harriet, b. Sept. 16, 1803; — ; d. Oct. 12, 1900. 

Aaron, b. Sept. 24, 1805; ; d. Aug. 8, 1822. 

Mrs. Asenath (Sweetland) Hollister died June 5, 1844, in her 
eighty-first year. 

Mary Hollister. born in Orford Parish, August 30. 1798. was 
married June 29, 1820, to Joseph Chester Pitkin, a son of Richard 
Pitkin,$ patriot, and grandson of Captain Richard Pitkin§. The 
fighting blood of his father and grandfather was inherited by Joseph, 
for he enlisted in the War of 1812, and his wife received a pension 
for his service. He was born October 28, 1795. and died February 
28, 1830. 

* Their home remained in the family many years, and was at one time 
occupied by his great-granddaughter, Mrs. Martha Hollister Taylor. 

t From Genealogy of Hollister Family. 

t Richard, Jr.. too young to be accepted as a soldier, was detailed, when 
a lad of sixteen years, to drive an ammunition wagon. In 1703. he was a 
Representative of his town in the Connecticut Legislature. 

§ See Patron Saints, p. 470. 



2 22 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Of this marriage three children were born,* Mary, Charles and 
John, all of whom Mrs. Pitkin survived. She lived in Manchester 
eighty years. Her circle of friends was large, for she was of an 
unusually lovable nature and possessed that strength and refinement 
of character which is so truly an inheritance from early New Eng- 
land ancestry. For the last twenty years of her life she resided in 
Milwaukee with a granddaughter. Such was her remarkable vigor 
and courage, that when, at the age of ninety-nine, she expressed 
a desire to return to her loved New England, her relatives yielded 
to her urgent request. At this advanced age. the journey, half 
way across the continent, was made in comfort ; and her desire was 
realized to see again, before the final separation should come, her 
family circle, among the number of which were four great-great- 
grandchildren. Her last illness at the home of her granddaughterf 
in Amherst, Mass., was but the inevitable cessation of her vital 
power. She died November 14, 1897, a few months before com- 
pleting her century of years, and was laid to rest in the East 
Cemetery in Manchester, beside her husband whom she had survived 
sixty-seven years. 

Harriet Hollister, born September 16, 1803, passed a quiet and 
retired life in the family homestead. South Manchester. After the 
home circle was broken she resided with friends in neighboring 
towns. Her death occurred at Talcottville, Conn., October 12, 1900, 
at the age of ninety-seven years, and although blind and deaf the last 
year of her life, she was very active for a person of her age. Before 
her memory failed she was fond of recalling stories she had heard 
her father tell of the Great Commander and of Lady Washington. 
She was pleased with her membership in the D. A. R. Society and 
happy in the possession of the souvenir spoon. She could not see it, 
but wished it placed by her plate at table. It seemed to connect 

* The children of Joseph Chester Pitkin and Alary (Hollister) Pitkin were: 
Mary, b. Aug. 26, 1821 ; m. Owen Spencer ; d. May 24, 1845. 

Charles E., b. Jan. 7, 1824; ; d. May 9, 1855. 

John Jay, 1>. Aug. 15. [828; m. Susan J. Thomson; d. May 18. tqoo. 

t Mrs. Henry J 1 ills. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 223 

her with an almost forgotten past. Her grave is beside her father's 
in the East Cemetery, Manchester, and the monument 1 (faring his 
name and those of his two wives, hears also the name of Harriet, 
the latest surviving member of the patriot's family. 

Alice Barrett Cheney. 

The last letter Mrs. Pitkin was able to write was in response to her elec- 
tion as an honorary member of Orford Parish Chapter. (She was then 
nearly ninety-eight years old.) The letter is as follows: 

"My dear Mrs. Case: 

I am informed by Mrs. C. S. Cheney that the D. A. R. Chapter of Orford 
Parish of South Manchester voted to make me an honorary member of the 
Chapter. I accept with pleasure and am thankful that so much of the true 
American principle remains with the descendants of those that gave us a free 
country. I thank you kindly for the honor you bestow upon me by making 
me a D. A. R. of the Orford Parish Chapter; it brings to memory that the 
first letter I ever wrote was dated 'Orford Parish.' 

Sincerely yours, 

Mary Pitkin." 

Milwaukee, May 23, 1896. 

Just before her death, her photograph, handsomely framed, was presented 
to the Chapter. It was a great regret to her that she was not strong enough 
to write her name and a quotation upon the back of the picture, as she had 
planned to do. Thus, almost her last thought was for the Society v, 
object it is to preserve the memory of her father and other patriots, who 
went from Orford Parish to battle for liberty. 

Among the members of Orford Parish Chapter. D. A. R. who attended 
her burial were many who remembered her with personal affection, and 
reverently they placed upon her grave a beautiful wreath of white roses, 
violets and maiden-hair ferns, with a hand of immortelles through the center 
beariiiQ' the letters D. A. R. 




LYDIA (ALEXANDER) COUCH. 
(At seventy years of age.) 



LYDIA (ALEXANDER) COUCH 

THOMAS ALEXANDER 




j| HO MAS ALEXANDER was a soldier in the Revolution- 
ary Army, serving in the Artillery Corps in 
Colonel Crane's Regiment 
Captain Seward's Company. 

His application for pension is on record in Hartford. 

"On this 2nd day of August, 1820, personally appeared in open Court, 
Thomas Alexander, aged 61 years, resident in East Windsor in the County 
of Hartford, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath 
declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows : 

In Capt. Seward's company, Col. John Crane's Regt., in the Artillery 
Corps, during the war; that his original time of application was 12th May, 
1818, and his pension certificate is number 14,646." 

"That his occupation is that of a farmer, and his family consists of a wife, 
aged 52 years, very feeble, and two children. Nelson Alexander, aged 14 years, 
and Lydia Alexander, aged 10 years, quite feeble and unable to attend school." 

(Signed) "Thomas Alexander." 

Thomas Alexander married Mabel Dorchester.* Their children 
were: Nelson, Mary, Collins, Lydia, Henry. 

Lydia Alexander was born September 14, 1810, and though at 
ten years of age she "was feeble and unable to attend school," 
she afterward married David Couch, and became the mother of 
eight children, and is still living ( 1904), at the age of ninety-four. 

The children of David and Lydia (Alexander) Couch were: 
Charles, Walter, Jerome. Mary, Jemima, Emma, Lura, John. 

Mrs. Couch's life has been spent in Manchester and vicinity. 
Tier recollection of the stories of her father's war experience is 
not vivid, but she recalls with pride hearing him tell of his pres- 
ence at the Battle of Bunker Hill. 

. [lice Barrett Cheney. 

Authority : Connecticut Men of the Revolution, pp. 632, 666. 

* The date of his marriage and the birth dates of Ids children are not 
obtainable, except Lydia's, the subject of this sketch. 




HOME OF CAPTAIN GILES LANGDON, SOUTHINGTON. 

Birthplace of Sylvia (Langdon) Dunham. 

(Tree measures 30 feet around the base and 150 feet in spread of branches.) 



IRutb Ibavt Chapter 



MERIDEN 



Daughters of 

SYLVIA (LANGDON) DUNHAM 

MARY SPOONER 



patriots 

GILES LANGDON 

— Captain 

MICAH SPOONER 



MARY (TODD) HALL 



JONAH TODD 

— Gun Locksmith 

THELUS TODD 

TODD 

TODD 



BETSEY (PARKER) JERALDS 



STEPHEN PARKER 



MARY ANN (LUCAS) DART 



ISRAEL LUCAS 



JERUSHA L'HOMMEDIEU 



(DOANE) CARTER 



JEMIMA MATILDA (DOANE SNOW 



JOEL DOANE 



ALMIRA (HUNTING) BUTLER 



AMOS HUNTING 




SYLVIA (LANGDON) DUNHAM. 

i When one hundred years and nine months old.i 

i Now living- 1 1904) aged one hundred and four years.* 



SYLVIA (LANGDON) DUNHAM 

GILES LANGDON— PATRIOT 




ILES LAXGDOX was born May 24, 1763. and entered 

the Revolutionary Army at the age of sixteen. He 

served six months, the greater part of the time stationed 

at "Horseneck," Fairfield County, Conn.* 

Giles Lang-don married 1st, January 20, 1785, Sarah Carter; 

2d, May 12, 1825, Sarah (Clarke), widow of Sylvester Frisbie. 

His children by his first wife, Sarah (Carter) Langdon, were: 

Perry, b. March 12, 1786; m. May 5, 1814, Lucy Hart; d. Nov. 20, 1879. 

Levi, b. Dec. 20, 1787; m. 1st, Oct. 5, 1814, Clarissa Hyde: 2d, Nov. 15. [831, 
Margaret A. Moffitt; 3d, Aug. 2, 1835, Mrs. Hannah (Lewis) Benja- 
min ; d. Oct. 2, 1862. 

Catherine,!). July 13, 1792; m. Feb. 24, 1814, Asabel Woodruff; d. Feb. r, 1859. 

Ruth, b. Feb. 13, 1794; m. March 20. 1816, Stephen Clarke; d. Sept. 26, 1875. 

Sarah, b. July 14, 1796; d. Oct. 12, 1824. 

Sylvia, b. July 27, 1800; m. Dec. 23. 1824. Chauncey Dunham. 

Infant child, b. Sept. 10, 1802; d. Nov. 3, 1802. 

Charles C, b. Aug. 6, 1806; m. Aug. 6, 1829, Eliza Moore; d. June 8, 1889. 

Giles N., b. April 20, 1808; m. 1st. Aug. 11. 1830, Emma Ann Pardee; 2d, 
Nov. 6, 1851. Mrs. Mary (Pardee) Houghton; d. Jan. 15, 1878. 

By his second wife, Sarah ( Clarke) Langdon, one child, namely : 
Dwight, b. Dec. 17, 1827; m. May 7, 1840, Minerva Upson; d. April 30, [860. 

Giles Langdon died February 11, 1847. 

The Ruth Hart Chapter has two honorary members who attained 
the great age of one hundred and four and one hundred and five 

* Giles Langdon was the son of Giles Langdon (born July 22, 1720) and 
Ruth Andrews. 

Levi Langdon, an older brother of Giles Langdon 2d (bom December 31, 
1754), was graduated at Yale College. 1777. studied theology and settled in 
Alstead, N. H. In Sketches of Southington it is written of him: "His holy 
example and godly conversation were ever an excellent comment on the 
doctrines he inculcated and thus he became what his people and their descend- 
ants denominated 'an everyday preacher.'" From Timlow's History of South- 
ington, Connecticut. 

In local history Giles Langdon's name appear- with the rank of Captain. 



2 3 



PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



years, Mrs. Sylvia (Langdon) Dunham, the subject of this sketch, 
and .Miss Mary Spooner of the following sketch. 

Sylvia ( Langdon ) Dunham, the fourth daughter of Captain Giles 
Langdon, was born July 2j, 1800, in the town of Southington. Her 
girlhood was passed in Southington in the useful occupations which 
fell to the lot of a farmer's daughter in those days. Reading, spell- 




HOME OF -MRS. SYLVIA (LANGDON) DUNHAM, SOUTHINGTON. 
(House is one hundred and fifteen years old.) 



ing and writing were thought an all-sufficient curriculum for girls 
in the day schools, but "ciphering" schools two evenings in the 
week gave them some slight knowledge of arithmetic. This course 
of study did not induce nervous prostration and the subject of our 
sketch grew to womanhood, blest with a sound mind in a healthy 
body. At the age of twenty-four she was married to a well-to-do 
farmer of Southington, Mr. Chauncey Dunham, a widower with two 
children. Air. Dunham's home was an inn or tavern, so that in 
addition to the family proper, including the "help" for farm and 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 231 

house, there was the transient guest to be provided for, and the 
household was never a small one. To guide it successfully required 
vigorous physical health, good judgment, quick intelligence and 
sound sense, qualities which Airs. Dunham possessed in large 
measure. One daughter, who died in infancy, and four suns came 
to gladden her heart, and in her old age the achievement of her life 
to which she refers with greatest pride is that she "brought up five 
boys, and they all grew up to be good men." 

The children of Chauncey Dunham and Sylvia (Langdon) Dun- 
ham, his wife, are : 

Charles C, b. May 3, 1828; m. 1st, May 23. 1850, Ermina S. Andrews; 2d, 

Dec, 1872, Mrs. Martha Fuller; d. Sept. 1, 1887. 
George, b. April 7, 1830; m. 1st, May 3, 1833, Isabella Bradley; m. 2d. May 

7, 1861. Mary J. Johnson; living in Unionville, Conn. 
Giles L.. b. July 16, 1832; m. 1st, March 17, [858, Nancy A. Robinson; m, 

2d, May 12. 1874, Julia Plat t- 
Samuel, b. Feb. 8, 1835; m. tst, Oct. 6, 1S63, Sarah M. Clark; m. 2d, Dec. 

10. 1901. Roberta McLeod; a minister living in Binghamton. N. Y. 

In the old homestead, to which she came as a bride eighty-three 
vears ago, she is spending a comfortable old age, still in the posses- 
sion of her mental faculties, as gracious and hospitable as when 
guiding the household now presided over by her son's wife. 

Her home is on the turnpike between Xew Haven and Farming- 
ton. Xear it was built, in the early years of the last century, the 
Northampton Canal, later the railroad, and lastly trolley tracks were 
laid, all parallel lines within a few feet of each other and in front 
of Mrs. Dunham's home. She has thus lived (hiring the age oi 
the stage coach, canal boat, railroad train, trolley car. bicycle and 
automobile. She is a wide reader and takes a keen interest in all 
that is going on in the world, especially in church and missionary 
work, to which she contributes regularly, although she has not 
attended church for some years. The rare privilege has been given 
to her of living in three centuries. It is a long life, filled with many 

blessings and precious memories. 

Hannah Keith Peck. 

Isabella B. Dunham. 

Julia P. Dunham. 

I MRS. '.11 ES I . DUNHAM. I 



MARY SPOONER 

MICAH SPOONER— PATRIOT 




MARY SPOONER. 
(One hundred and five years old.) 

ISS MARY SPOONER enjoyed the distinction of having 
attained the age of one hundred and five years. She 
was horn February 8, 1794, and died April 28, 1899, 
exceeding by thirty-five years life's allotted span, and 
continuing in the possession of her faculties and in fine health almost 
to the last. Her senses were very acute and she had a wonderful 
meinorv. She was in fact a living record of local historical facts. 




DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 233 

She was of medium height and very erect, as her superb bodily pose 
in the illustration testifies. 

Her home was in Xew Bedford, Mass., about two miles from 
Acushnet. a quaint farm house, some distance from the road and 
surrounded by wooded pastures. She has lived in three towns 
and one city without ever having moved, the name having changed 
several times. She was born in the town of Dartmouth, Mass., 
which became Fairhaven, afterwards Acushnet and finally the city 
of New Bedford. 

Her father, Micah Spooner, was one of the Minute Men who 
marched from Dartmouth (Xew Bedford) to Roxbury, April 21, 
1775, in the company of Captain Thomas Kempton.* 

Patriot Micah Spooner was also one of the earliest settlers of 
Acushnet. His wife was Patience Crapo. They had eleven chil- 
dren, as follows : Mercy, Patience, Anna, Margaret, Hannah, Micah, 
Jonathan, Mary, Priscilla, Cynthia and Alden. All were born near 
the site of the present house, in the pioneer log-cabin, which was 
looked upon, until the time of its removal a few years ago, as a 
curiosity. The family was a long-lived one. Micah Spooner died 
at the age of seventy, while his wife reached the ripe age of ninety- 
four, and all their children except one lived to be between eighty 
and ninety-one years of age. 

In her younger days Miss Spooner was a noted dancer, and on 
her one hundred and first birthday, in response to an invitation from 
her grandniece, this centenarian arose from her chair and slowly 
circled about the room with much of her youthful grace and spright- 
liness. She was always able to wait upon herself, and to go about 
indoors and out, and even attended to various household duties. 
On the occasion of a visit from a member of the Ruth Hart Chapter 
she recited two or three poems which she had treasured up in her 
memory since childhood. 

When the time for parting came she accompanied her guests to 

the door, and it was with a feeling of reverence that they took the 

hand which she extended, for during the hour spent with her they 

had had a glimpse of past scenes which heretofore had been known 

to them only in history. 

Mary E. Morgan. 

I MRS. HUBER I w . Ml lR 

* Connecticut School Journal, copied from Xew Bedford Evening Journal, 
December, 1897. 




MARY (TODD) HALL. 

(From ;i photograph taken in Mrs. Hall's home on the afternoon when the Ruth Hart Chapter 
celebrated Mrs. Hall's ninety-first birthday and presented her with the 
Souvenir Spoon — gift of the National Society.) 



MARY (TODD) HALL 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILIES 
TODD— ROGERS 




HELL'S TODD, the father of Mary (Todd) Hall, was 
born May 12, 1763, in North Branford, Conn., and in 
the spring" of 1781 was drafted and sent to Fort Gris- 
H wold. New London, where he served under Colonel 
Ledyard for six weeks, when, owing to illness, he was sent home 
on a furlough. This was only a few days previous to Benedict 
Arnold's raid upon New London, and the capture of Fort (iris- 
wold (September 6). The surrender of Cornwallis soon after this 
(October 19), put an end to hostilities, and young Todd was never 
recalled for service in the army. 

Thelus Todd was the son of Jonah Todd, a descendant of Chris- 
topher Todd who came to Boston in 1637 and who was one of the 
original settlers of New Haven in [638. Jonah Todd was a gold- 
smith by trade, and during the war lie rendered aid to his country by 
making gunlocks, in which work he was assisted by his youngesl 
son, Thelus, then too young to enter the army. Mrs. Hall remem- 
bers g<»ing through the building where they worked, and hearing 
of the work done there. Two older sons of Jonah Todd enlisted 
as Artificers in the early years of the war and served until its close. 
One of these helped to forge the chain stretched across the Hudson 
River near West Point, to hinder the progress of the British vessels 
up the river. 

Jonah"' Todd (son of Stephen, 4 Samuel, 3 Samuel, 2 Christopher 1 ) 
settled in Bethany, where he had a sawmill. His children were 
Charles, Ambrose. Thaddeus, Thelus, Jonah, Fli. Lucy (who mar- 
ried Daniel Hotchkiss). Chauncy. Hannah and Esther Lowly I whose 
death preceded his own). 



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PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



Thelus Todd married October 15, 1794, Irene Rogers (born in 
North Branford, November 28, 1766). She was a descendant of 
John Rogers the martyr, in the fifth generation. Irene Rogers 
remembered well incidents connected with Trvon's invasion of New 
Haven (1779), and years afterwards often told her children of it 
as follows: The "red coats" landed at the East Haven shore and 
the Todd family and their neighbors loading their ox carts with 
bedding and food and throwing the family silverware into the well 
hurried to the woods, where they camped for three or four days. 
In their haste a very young calf was left in the barn, shut away 
from its mother, and the young girl's heart was sorely grieved. On 
their return she found to her joy that the calf was still alive, but 
exceedingly hungry. Airs. Todd also often told her children that 
her father, Thomas Rogers, entertained George Washington, who, 
passing through the town, stopped at the Rogers' home for rest and 
refreshment. 

Thomas Rogers, son of Josiah and Lydia Rogers, was born Nov. 
10, 1726; married first, in 1748, Rebecca Gildersheath, who died in 
1751; married second, Rebecca Hobart, Oct. 12, 1752. Their 
children were : 



Abijah, b. Dec. 2.2, 1753. 
Rufus, b. Aug. 5, 1756. 
Josiah, b. Nov. 22, 1761. 
Eliphalet, 1>. June 2, 1764. 



Irene, b. Nov. 28, 1766. 
Ammi, b. May 26, 1769. 
Hobart, b. April 13, 1773. 



Thelus Todd, after the war, became a farmer of much energy and 
excellent judgment, and was much respected in the community where 
he lived. He was public spirited and liberal in his contributions to 
the church to which he belonged. 

The children of Thelus Todd and Irene (Rogers) Todd, his wife, 
were : 



Wyllis, b. Aug. 7, 1798; d. April 4, 1849. 

Rebecca, b. July 29, 1800. 

Thelus, b. Sept. 19, 1802. 

Mary, b. Feb. 18, 1805. 

Esther, b. Nov. 4, 1808; d. May 11, 1818. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 237 

Thelus Todd died Feb. i, 1846, aged eighty-one years. Irene 
Todd, his wife, died April 21, i860, aged ninety-three years and 
five months. 

Alary Todd, the subject of this sketch, was born in North Bran- 
ford, Conn., February 18, 1805. Early in life she married ( )rrin 
Hall of Wallingford, Conn., and here her four children* were born. 
Upon the death of her husband, about twenty-three years ago, she 
removed to Meriden, and spent the remaining years of her life with 
her daughter.f At the age of ninety she became a member of Ruth 
Hart Chapter, and on her ninety-first birthday received the souvenir 
spoon. 

Some of her needlework done at the advanced age of eighty-six 
years is an object lesson of industry and skill. She lived to be 
nearly ninety-three years of age, and retained all her faculties, keep- 
ing alive a keen interest in politics, as well as an accurate knowledge 
of the lives and services of the public men of our time. She was 
a member of the Episcopal Church, an earnest Christian and a 
most lovable woman. 

Her death came as she had always wished, suddenly and peace- 
fully. She was ill but a few hours, and quietly passed into that 
"calm and undisturbed repose" which is the foretaste of the "rest 
that remaineth to the people of God." She died November 15. [897. 

* The children of Air. and Airs. Hall were 
Benjamin, b. Oct. 30, 18.30; m. Martha Todd, Nov. 4, 1857; m. 2d, Clarissa 

Porter, April 11, 1866. 
Gloson, b. Jan. 20. 1834; m. Caroline Tredway, Nov. 28, i860; m. 2d, 



Mary, b. April i_\ 1838; m. Ransom Baldwin, Jan. 22, 1867. 
Elbert, b. March 6, 1841 ; m. Lydia Adela Bartholomew, April to. [865. 
t Mrs. Ransom Baldwin. 




BETSEY (PARKER) JERALDS. 



BETSEY (PARKER) JERALDS 

STEPHEN PARKER— PATRIOT 



RS. BETSEY (PARKER) JERALDS, the first Patriot's 
Daughter to become a member of the Ruth Hart Chap- 
ter, was born in Cheshire, Conn., May i, 1807. She 
was the daughter of Stephen Parker, who was also 
born in Cheshire, August 5, 1759. 

When eighteen years of age Stephen Parker of Cheshire enlisted 
( May, 1777) in 

Colonel Roger Enos' Regiment 
Captain James Peck's Company (Wallingford), 

and (according to his own record, as found in his pension applica- 
tion ), marched to Five Mile Point at East Haven : also from the pen- 
sion record is the following: In September the company was ordered 
to proceed to North River, where they met the regular troops, and 
were attached to Gen. Parsons' regiment, under General Putnam. 
His term of enlistment being six months, Stephen Parker was dis- 
charged the latter part of December ( 1777). 

In July, 1779. he went as a substitute for his brother and served in 
Captain Amos Hotchkiss' Company 
about three months, being with the troops that answered the alarms 
at Xew Haven, Danbury and Fairfield. 

In June, 1780, he again enlisted and served under 
Colonel Heman Swift 
Seventh Regiment, Connecticut Line, 

and was with the regiment at Nelson's Point, Xew York. From 
there the regiment was marched to Peekskill and to King's Ferry, 
across the ferrv to the Jersey side, thence to Tappan (a distance of 
about thirty-five miles, he thinks),* where he saw Major Andre 

* This account of the march is from his pension application, lie received 
a pension of $53.33 per annum under the Act of June 7, [832. lie died 
July I, 1846. 

See also Connecticut Men in the Revolution, pp. 228, 615, 660 




HOME OF STEPHEN PARKER, CHESHIRE. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 241 

hang-ed. The December following the}- marched hack, recrossing 
the river at the same place, and thence to the Highlands, where 
the Connecticut troops built themselves huts to winter in. Here 
he was discharged in Decemher. 

Airs. Jeralds. in speaking of her patriotic father, said : "] le often 
related to his children incidents connected with his life in the Revo- 
lutionary Army. At one time, when his regiment had been two 
days without food, it was learned that a shipload of turnips had 
arrived by the Hudson River. My father was selected as being 
trustworthy to go and buy a part of this tempting food. < >n reach- 
ing the hanks of the Hudson his purchase was soon made, but so 
hungrily did he look upon these raw provisions that the owner 
presented him with two small turnips, and I have heard him say 
that never in his life had anything tasted sweeter than those two 
raw turnips." 

Stephen Parker was present at the execution of Andre, and with 
a face glowing with pride he recalled that although the three young 
men who captured Andre were poor, they would not release him 
or sell their honor and their country for gold. 

Stephen Parker married 1st, Sarah Twiss. May 27 ', 1787. The 
following children were horn to them : 

Clarissa, b. June 10. 1788; d. May 27, 1780. 

Ziri, b. Aug. 1, 1790. 

Stephen, l>. July 17, 17112; d. Jan. 15, 1794. 

Stephen, b. Nov. 3. 1794. 

Sarah, b. March ir. 1797. 

Clarissa, b. March 10, 1S00; d. March 13. 1S00. 

Joel, b. March 11, 1S01. 

Isabella, b. Nov. 25, 1.803. 

Stephen Parker married 2<\, Rebecca (Ray) Stone, January 6, 
1805. The following children were born to them : 

John, b. Aug. 30, 1805. Ch \klks. b. Jan. 2. [809. 

Betsey, b. May 1, 1807. Edmund, b. Feb. 9, 1S11. 

The name of George Washington was a sacred one to Stephen 
Parker, and he never wearied of telling of the great and brave 



242 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Father of our Country. Often he repeated an old poem called 
"A New Song," the first verse of which was : 

"Old England, forty years ago, 
When we were young and slender, 
She aimed at us a mighty blow. 
But God was our defender." 

Of her mother's connection with the war, Airs. Parker related the 
following": "My mother, Rebecca Ray, was living with her mother 
in New Haven when the British invaded the town. Her home was 
plundered of everything valuable. The gold beads were stripped 
from her mother's neck and the silver buckles from her shoes, while 
a British officer stood with drawn sword threatening her life, should 
she resist." 

Betsey Parker married Rev. Thomas Jeralds, a Methodist minis- 
ter of the Xew York Conference, and for several years experienced 
the sunshine and shadows of the itineracy. There were born to 
them three children, two of whom are living. Rev. Thomas Jeralds 
died November 4, 1861. Mrs. Jeralds died June 27, 1901, aged 
ninety-four years. 

Edith Lore Stockder. 

(MRS. C. E. STOCKDER.) 

Helen R. Merriam. 

(MRS. GEORGE C. MERRIAM.) 

Six descendants of Stephen Parker are members of Ruth Hart Chapter ; 
one daughter and five granddaughters. 



MARY ANN (LUCAS) DART 

ISRAEL LUCAS— PATRIOT 





MARY AXX (LUCAS) DART. 

SRAEL LUCAS, the father of Mrs. Dart, enlisted in the 
Revolutionary Army March. 1776, for a term of nine 
months. He served in the 
Dutchess County j New York State Militia 
Sixth Regiment, in command of 
Colonel Morris Graham 
Lieutenant William Swartout's Company. 



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PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



He was discharged from service December, 1776, at Fort Mont- 
gomery, and his name is among the pensioners from Glastonbury, 
Conn. He died in South Glastonbury March 22, 1834. His wife 
was Mabel Bidwell. 




THE DART HOMESTEAD, SOUTH GLASTONBURY. 
(One hundred and fifty years old. i 

Mary Ann Lucas was born October 28, 181 1, and still lives (1904) 
in the house where she was born. Mrs. Dart is the mother of nine 
children, of whom seven are living. She has twelve grandchildren 
and two great-grandchildren. She is in good health for one of her 
years. She is able to read and write without the aid of glasses and 
enjoys meeting her many friends. She is the oldest member of the 
Congregational Church in South Glastonbury, and takes a deep 
interest in its welfare. 



Authority: Connecticut Men in the Revolution, p. 665. 



JERUSHA L'HOMMEDIEU (DOANE) CARTER 
JEMIMA MATILDA (DOANE) SNOW 

JOEL DOANE— PATRIOT 




fOEL DOANE, the father of .Airs. Carter and of Airs. 
Snow, was born in Saybrook, Conn.. January 9, [763, 
and died in Westbrook, Conn.. November 23, 1852. 
He enlisted as a private in the Revolutionary War 
and served three years. Although so young — for he was but eigh- 
teen years old when Cornwallis surrendered ( 1781 ) — yet he was 
so fortunate as to receive the personal commendation of General 
Washington, who. when passing the regiment, patted the young 
man on the shoulder, saying, "you are a good soldier." During 
one engagement his position was so near the cannon that the noise 
caused a deafness of the left ear, from which he never recovered. 
On account of this disability he received a pension under the Act 
of 18 1 8. 

At the close of the war lie became a farmer, and married June 

20, 1787, Lydia Stannard. They had four children. He married 
second. Jemima L'Hommedieu (born December 2, [772; died June 

21, 1855). Four children were born to him by this marriage, 
namely: Jerusha, horn May 9, 1806; Jason, horn 1S08: Jemima, 
born January 28. 1810, and Curtis, horn 1812. 

The longevity of the family is worthy of note. Joel Doane lived 
to be eighty-nine years old and two of his sons are still living 
(1902), aged respectively eighty-six and ninety years: also a 
daughter, aged ninety-four. 

Mrs. Carter was a resident of Clinton, Conn., until her death. 
Tune 6, [899. She left four children, fifteen grandchildren and 
eleven great-grandchildren. She joined the Ruth Hart Chapter 
January 7, 1898. 



246 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Airs. Snow, born January 28, 1810, was the third child of Joel 
and Jemima (L'Hommedieu) Doane. She married David Snow, 
and has lived in Meriden nearly forty years. She had ten children, 
eight of whom are living", nine grandchildren and six great-grand- 
children. She joined the Ruth Hart Chapter March 17. 1896, but 
is not able to attend any of the meetings, nor to attend the church 
services. 

Authority: Connecticut Men in the Revolution, page 633. 



ALMIRA (HUNTING) BUTLER 



AMOS HUNTING— PATRIOT 





ALMIRA (HUNTING) BUTLER. 

A [OS HUNTING, the father of Mrs. Butler, was born 
in Dedham, Massachusetts, March 15. [763, and died at 
Belchertown, Massachusetts, January 2$, 1846.* 

He enlisted as a private from the town of Dedham. 
Mass., marching to camp July 15, 1780. continuing in active service 
until his discharge, January 3, 1781, being then only eighteen years 
of age. He was an eye-witness of the execution of Major Andre, 
and of this event his daughter often heard him speak as one that 

* From Hunting Genealogy. 



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PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



made a lasting and terrible impression on his memory. His daugh- 
ter also remembered her father's reference to the rations of the war. 
For his services in the army he received £11. 18s. 8d.* Some of 
this Continental money which he received in 1781, is still in the 
possession of his granddaughter. f 




CONTINENTAL CURRENCY. 

(From a photograph of a five dollar bill, dated July 22, 1776, being a portion of the money and 

the very bill paid to Patriot Amos Hunting for his services in the war. 

Now in the possession of his granddaughter. 1 

Soon after the close of the war Amos Hunting married (Novem- 
ber 8, 1786) Olive Newell (born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Novem- 
ber 5, 1700 ). Eleven children were born to them, namely: 

Olive, b. Oct. 23, 17S7. 

Betsey, b. Jan. 7. 1790. 

Lydia, b. March 31, 1792. 

Amos, b. April 3, 1794; d. Aug. 30, 1S03. 

Rebecca, b. Jan. 5, 1797. 

* Records of the Revolutionary War, Boston, Mass. Lawyers' Certificate 
in Department of National Affairs in Boston, Mass. 

t Mrs. S. T. Proudman (Meriden), who also has in her possession the 
original pension papers of her grandfather, the patriot, dated Dec. 8, 1845, 
not quite two months previous to his death. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 249 

Ebenezer N., b. ; m. Elizabeth Conlidge, July 10. 1823. 

Anna, b. Aug. 29, 1800; d. Aug. 18. 1831. 
Sarah, b. June 21, 1802. 

Nathan, b. Sept. 25, 1805; m. Melinda Smith, \pril 2, 1832. 
.Ihiiira, b. Oct. 4, 1806. 

Reuben, b. Sept. 11, 180S; m. Sarah Lamprey. .May 9, [833, Gilmore City, 
Iowa. 

Amos Hunting, the patriot, died January 23, 1846, at Belchertown, 
Massachusetts. 

Almira Hunting-, the tenth child of the patriot, was born in Need- 
ham, Mass.. October 4. 1806. She married Ephraim Butler and 
was the mother of eight children, namely: Amos, Susan Almira. 
H. Maria, Reuben, Reuben Little, Sarah Elizabeth, Caroline 
Rebecca, William Henry. 

Mrs. Butler was an active member of the Congregational Church 
of Shutesbury, Mass., where her married life was spent; after it 
became impossible for her to attend the regular services, she retained 
her connection with the church through frequent correspondence. 

(Signature written March 2, 1896, when Mrs. Butler was ninety years old.) 

For the last fourteen years of her life her borne was with her 

daughter in Meriden, Conn. Her physical strength failed gradually, 

but her mind was clear until the last. Her character was lovely 

in the extreme and the end came as a deep sleep. .Mrs. Butler 

died September 8, 1897. 

Hannah Keith Peck. 

Those who assisted Miss Peck in the preparation of these sketches are: 
.Mrs. Mary (Hall) Baldwin. Todd-Hall sketch; Mrs. John D. Davis, Lucas- 
Dart sketch; Mrs. Gen. W. Lyon, Doane-Carter and Doane-Snow sketch: 
Mrs. H. Maria (Butler) Proudman, Hunting-Butler sketch. 




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HARTFORD 



Daiuibters of 

FLORILLA (SWETLAND^ PIERCE 



lpatrfots 

BENJAMIN SWETLAND 
— Fife Major 

DANIEL SWETLAND 

LUKE SWETLAND 



CAROLINE FOSTER 



ASA FOSTER 



STATIRA (HODGE BEARDSLEY PHILO HODGE 



TIRZAH MORGAN PARSONS 



ISRAEL PARSONS 
— Asst. to Commissary General 



A New Song. 

America to arms prepare 
Honor and Glory calls for war 
Exert yourselves with force and might 
And see how the American boys can fight 
For to maintain our charter rights. 
Fight on brave boys. 

Hark ! how their warlike trumpet sounds 
Where there is nothing but blood and wounds 
Drums a-beating, colours flying, 
Canon roaring, Tories dying, 
These are the noble effects of war. 
Fight on brave boys. 

The haughty Tories never will 
Forget the fight at Bunker Hill 
Although they gained the field by blood, 
By all that we have understood, 
They dare not venture out again. 
Fight on brave boys. 

You that reign masters of this land 
Shake off your slothfulness and stand 
We'll make the haughty Tories know 
The tortures the}' must undergo 
When they engage their mortal foe. 
Fight on brave boys. 

Display your colors, beat your drums 
Batter their shipping, dismount their guns. 
United sons of American fame 
Let not your courage ever fail 
We'll drive the Hessians back again. 
Fight on biave boys. 

Why then should we be daunted at all 
Since we have engaged in so good a cause 
As fighting for our rights and laws 
And dying in so just a cause 
We'll prove their fatal overthrow. 
Fight on brave boys. 
Finis. 
For the year 1780. B.S. 

(From Fife-Major Benjamin Swetland's Revolutionary Roster. His own 
composition.) 



FLORILLA (SWETLAND) PIERCE 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILIES 
SWETLAND— HANCOCK 




JENJAMIN SWETLAND, the father of Mrs. Pierce, 
was born in Bolton, Conn., September 29, 1756, and 
died in Waterville, N. Y., September 29, 1819. During 

the war and his early married life, his residence was in 



Sinners, Connecticut. He first enlisted for service May 1, 1777. in 
the Third Massachusetts Regiment, under the command of 

Colonel John Greaton of Roxbury 
Captain Charles Colton's Company. 

Benjamin Swetland kept the roster of the company and used that 
book during the war, and later for memoranda. Here he made 
entries of births, deaths, and other events of family interest, "ddiere 
are also in that precious book, military orders, speeches, ciphers — 
occult characters for the alphabet and figures. Bible verses and 
hymns, and miscellaneous memoranda." Tims writes his great- 
granddaughter,* who made a study of his life from his writings 
and from reminiscences, and tradition, ddie same descendant also 
says: "While I was studying his hook I became deeply interested 
in his character. I soon learned to respect, admire and love him. 
. . . He was only twenty years old when he enlisted the first 
time, for three years 'to do or die for his country.' I could imagine 
him with his fife, and full of music, romance, and military ardor. 
The romance is indicated by a correspondence (copied) between 
two lovers, and the military ardor is expressed in original verses." 
On one page appears this entry: "Appointed May 1. 1777. Fife 
Major, Benjamin Swetland.*' His weekly return of February 24, 
1780, is signed, "Benjamin Swetland. Sargt." In another place 
he writes "A short account of a three years' campaign. In May. 

-The late Mrs. Delia (Bidwell) Ward of Hartford. 



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PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



1777, I enlisted under the command of Col John Greaton of Rox- 
bury, Mass., in Capt. Charles Colton's Company of Springfield, 
until the August to guard Continental stores, and then received 
orders to join the Regiment which we found at Van Skoik's Island 
near Halfmoon, then from there to Stillwater, then after the battles ; 
then Saratoga, wheare Burgoine surrendered with all his army to 
the Americans." He notes this last event again in another place 
as follows: "Westpoint, October 17th.; Four years from this day 










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A LEAF FROM BENJAMIN SWETLAND S ROSTER. 

\W-st Point, October 17th. Four years from this Day since the Surrender of Gen. Burgoin 
at Saratoga in the year 1777. Benj. Swetland Eye Witness. 

since the surrender of Genl. Burgoin at Saratoga in the year 1777 — 
Benjamin Swetland, Eye Witness." 

Again he writes that on Sunday, April 30, 1780, at Continental 
Village: "I got my discharge from the service of the United of 
America ; and came as far as Crompound and tarried there till 
Wensday, the 3rd of May, and then I set out and came to Salem 
that day, and the next day I came to Woodbury and there I staid 
until Monday, the 8 of May, and then I set out from Woodbury 
and came to Southington, and the next day I arrived at Hartford, 
Friday, May the 9th, 1780." 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



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Benjamin Swetland re-enlisted August 23, 1780. "att Westpoint" 
(roster) in Capt. Cook's Company; Col. Canfield's Regiment of 
Militia. 

Daniel Swetland. a brother of Benjamin, served during- the Revo- 
lution under Colonels Davidson and Pynchon. He encamped at 



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West Point 31st 1781 October. The great Rejoicing- Day of the Capture of Cornwallis and all 

his army on the 18th day October 17S1. Longmeadou or Wilbraham Somers. 

Benj m . Swetland 

Roxbury, Mass., and was with the army that besieged Boston. 
He was at Quebec October 6, 1775. and also in the Bennington 
Alarm Service. He was detached from Colonel Pynchon's regi- 
ment and ordered to join General Gates. He left September 24. 
1 jyj for the seat of danger, and was thus present, though on the other 
side of the river, at the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga. 



"The old order of things had plainly passed away." 




I AND WARMING PAN OF SERGEANT AND FIFE-MAJOR BENJAMIN SWETLAND. 
(The musket was carried by him through the war. I 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 257 

Luke S wetland,* an uncle of Benjamin and Daniel, was also a 
Revolutionary soldier. He enlisted September 17, 1776, in Cap- 
tain Robert Durffee's Independent Company, and encamped at 
Morristown, N. J., during the winter of 1777. 

Benjamin S wetland married, near the close of the war, Rosanna 
Hancock. In the Hancock family Jabez Hancock, Jr., Rosanna 
S wetland 's brother, served at Ticonderoga from December 5, 1776, 
to April 2, 1777, in Captain Daniel Cadwell's Company, Colonel 
Timothy Robinson's Detachment of Militia from Massachusetts. 
Abner, another brother, and Jabez Hancock, Jr., served in Captain 
Charles Colton's Company, Third Massachusetts Regiment. Five 
others of her Hancock kinsmen served in the same company, namely : 
Moses, son of John Hancock, Jr., and second wife Abigail (Terry) ; 
Abel, son of Abel Hancock, and wife Eunice (Parsons), and Wil- 
liam, Oliver, Zacharia, sons of William Hancock and wife Hannah 
(Long). They all lived at Longmeadow, Mass., a border town on 
the Connecticut line. 

Benjamin Swetland married Rosanna Hancock of Longmeadow. 
Mass., June 6, 1782. They were the parents of eleven children: 

Lovicy, b. in Somers, Conn., Jan. 3, 1784; m. James Bidwell of Windsor 

(Wintonbury Parish), Thanksgiving day, 1802; d. Sept. 16, 1821. 
Rosanna, b. in Somers, March 16, 1786; m. Feb. 21, 1804, Amos Osborn of 

Waterville, Oneida County, N. Y. ; d. Jan. 7, 1865. 
Warren, b. in Somers. 
Jam in, b. in East Windsor, Conn., March 31, 1791 ; d. in Camillas, Onondaga 

County, N. Y. 
Cynthia, b. in East Windsor, May 12, 1793; m. 1st (as his 2d wife), Ebene- 

zer Shattuck, Dec. 20, 1813 ; 2d, Levi Benton. 
Alva, b. in East Windsor, Oct. 31, 1795: d. in Onondaga County, N. Y. 
Polly, b. in East Windsor, Oct. 29, 1797 ; m. John Eames in 1816. lived in 

Honeoye Falls, Munroe County, N. Y. ; d. Dec. 3, 185 1. 
Lyman, b. in East Windsor. May 2. 1799. 
Florilla, b. in Waterville, N. Y., Aug. 25, 1803; m. Reuben Pierce, May 21, 

1823; lives in North Bloomfield, N. Y. 
Sevilla, b. in Waterville, Oct. 25, 1805; m. 1st, Thomas Jeffreys, M.D. ; 

2d, Joseph Fladger, both of Port Byron, Cayuga County, N. Y. ; d. April 

27, 1877. 
Marcia, b. Sept. 18, 1809; m. James Smith of Chicago; d. June 12, 1885. 

* He was one of the settlers of Wyoming, Pennsylvania, and was made a 
captive by the Seneca Indians. A narrative of his life among them, written 
by himself, has been printed. 



2C.8 



PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



Benjamin Swetland and his family moved to East Windsor, 
Conn., March 16, [791, and in November, 1799. to Sangerneld 
(Waterville), Oneida County, N. Y., whither the parents of Mrs. 
Swetland — Mr. and Mrs. Jabez Hancock — had preceded them. The 
two couples arc buried in the old cemetery of the town, where a well- 
preserved tombstone marks their resting place. 





GRAVESTONE OF BENJAMIN SWETLAND AND WIFE, ROSANNA (HANCOCK) 

SWETLAND. 

Uso of her parents, Jabez Hancock and wife, Rachel (Wright) Hancock. Waterville, Oneida 
County, \ . V. Jabez Hancock was a soldier of the Colonial Wars and "suffered gieat hard- 
ships." 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 259 

Florilla (Swetland) Pierce was born in Sangerfield (now Water- 
ville) , Oneida County, N. Y. Of purely New England extraction, 
her ancestry can be traced to the original Puritan settlers in Massa- 
chusetts and Connecticut. 

Florilla Swetland received a good education. When she was six 
years old she attended the district school, then the academy, of 
Waterville, N. Y., and later she went to Air. Latimore's school of 
Bloomfield, Conn. She was also sent to a singing" school. 

Her youth was a happy one. for although her father's home was 
dominated by the spirit of old-fashioned religion, it was in no wax- 
gloomy, and she recalls the many entertainments she attended. She 
was instructed in housekeeping and learned to make butter and 
cheese, to spin flax and tow, and to do fine sewing. The Sabbath 
was kept with the utmost strictness. The cooking for Sunday was 
all done on Saturday. After attending two church services the 
dinner was eaten, but the table was not cleared away until after 
sundown, and in the interim the catechism was studied. 

While visiting her brother Jamin in Syracuse, X. Y., Florilla 
Swetland taught school for five months during the summer of 1820. 
The following summer she kept a school in West Bloomfield, X. Y. 
Here she met her future husband, Mr. Reuben Pierce, a soldier 
of the War of 1812. They were married May 21, 1823, and eleven 
children were born to them : 

Benjamin Swetland Pierce, b. May 31, 1825; m. Salina M. Wiggins, Oct. 

21, 1847; d. Sept. 1, 1890. 
Amos Eldridge Pierce, b. April 12, 1827; 111. Emily Foote. 
Marcia Lovicy Pierce, b. Aug. 9, 1S29; m. A. J. Carmichael, June 13, 1855. 
Sevilla Lucia Pierce. 1). Aug. 11. 1S31 ; 111. Henry Clark. April 14, 1857; d. 

July 12, 1862. 
Daniel King Pierce, b. Aug. 2, 1833; d. an infant. 
Rosanna Osborn Pierce, b. Oct. 17, 1835; m. William W. St. John, Jan. 

27, i860. 
Mary Andalusia Pierce, b. March 2, [838; m. i^t, Henry Clark. March 25, 

1863; 2d, Columhus White. April 22. [866; d. March 9, 1880. 
Franklin King Pierce, b. Nov. 11. 1841; m. Sarah Raines; d. May 8, 1897. 
Flora Louisa Pierce, b. April 27, 1844; m. Ely Babcock, Jan. 28, 1861. 
Catherine Rosalie Pierce, b. August 8, 1847. 
Charles Reuben Pierce, b. May 17. 1849; m. 1st, Mary A. Woodward, April 

24. 1868; 2d, Lillian Hotchkiss, Aug. 4. 1881. 



260 TATRIOTS" DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

In 1830 Air. Pierce and family moved to North Bloomfield, N. Y., 
where Mr. Pierce bought the place that has been "home" ever 
since for his wife. 

Mrs. Pierce was admitted to the Ruth Wyllys Chapter April 15, 
1896. Her papers were signed at Washington, April 25, of the 
same year. She is not only the daughter of a patriot who helped 
establish American Independence ; she is also the granddaughter of 
a fighter in the Colonial Wars ; the wife of a soldier in a later 
conflict ; the mother of one who offered his youthful services to 
his country in 1864, and the kinswoman of many other soldiers. 

Mrs. Pierce is still living, having passed her one hundredth birth- 
da}', August, 1903. 

Mabel Ward Cameron. 

(MRS. CHARLES ERNEST CAMERON.) 

Authorities for Statements : 

Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the American Revolution, 

page 581. 
The Centennial Celebration of the Incorporation of the Town of 

Wilbraham, Massachusetts, June 15, 1863, pages 115, 117, 234, 

235. J37, 238. Various service, 938-1179, 1986-2160. 
Roster kept by Sergeant and Fife-Major Benjamin Swetland during 

the War of American Independence and now belonging to the 

estate of his grandson, the late William Wirt Smith, Esq. of 

Chicago, 111. (The roster has recently been presented to the 

Chicago Historical Society.) 
Luke Swetland's Narrative republished in 1876, with additional notes 

by the late Hon. Amos O. Osborne. 
Genealogical Notes of the late Mrs. Delia (Bidwell) Ward of 

Hartford, Conn. 
Letters from Mrs. Pierce, Miss Catherine Pierce, and others of her 

family. 
Family tradition. 
Certain photographs were furnished by Mrs. William G. Mayer, 

Waterville, X. Y., who is the present owner of the patriot's 

musket and warming pan. 



CAROLINE FOSTER 

COLONEL ASA FOSTER— PATRIOT 




|jISS FOSTER is a descendant in the sixth generation of 
Reginald and Judith Foster, who came from Exeter, 
Devonshire, England, to Ipswich, Mass., about 1633. 
The family lived in Ipswich and Andover, Mass., for 
many years, allying themselves by marriage with several well- 
known families of the Colony. Emerson, Winthrop, Symonds, Pea- 
body, Hutchinson, Andrews, Abbott and Hale are among Miss 
Foster's ancestral names and the sterling qualities of these ancestors 
have come down to her through the generations. 

Asa Foster, father of Caroline Foster, was the grandson of Cap- 
tain Asa Foster of the French and Indian War, and was born in 
Canterbury, X. H., June 3, 1765. When a boy of fifteen, he 
obtained his father's consent to join the Revolutionary Army, and 
enlisted as a private soldier Jul)' 5, 1780. In the records in the 
Adjutant General's office, Concord, N. H., Asa Foster's name is 
found on the rolls of the New Hampshire Militia, 

Colonel Moses Nichol's Regiment 
Captain Ebenezer Webster's Company. 

In 1780 this regiment joined the Continental Army at West Point, 
then under the command, of Benedict Arnold. Flere Asa Foster 
served for a short time in the bodyguard of the traitor, whose 
treason was discovered shortly after Asa Foster's discharge from 
this service ; but he was a witness of Arnold's daring escape to the 
British ship Vulture. Young Foster returned home unwounded, 
but sadly worn by long marches and lack of food. His discharge 
is dated October 25, 1780. 

Asa Foster retained his interest in military life after the war, 
and served for many years as Colonel of Militia, but he finally 




CAROLINE FOSTER. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 263 

resigned, having become convinced that war was an unchristian 
and uncivilized mode of settling disputes. He was no less radical 
on the temperance question, being one of the earliest believers in 
total abstinence. At the annua] dinner which he gave to the officers 
of his regiment, he even went to the length of furnishing no liquor ; 
but what was lacking in beverages was made up by the excellent 
menu which he set before his gnests. He entered the anti-slavery 
struggle with whole-souled enthusiasm and lived to see the beginning 
of the war which overthrew this iniquitous system. He died Aug. 
2i, 1861, in his native town of Canterbury, X. H., at the age of 
ninety-six. 

Colonel Asa Foster married Sarah Morrill, Nov. 10, i/<;4, and to 
them were born twelve children: 

Asa Emerson, b. Sept. 2. 1795; m. Maria Chickering. Sept. 8, 1830; d. Oct. 

9. 1875. 
Lucy Wilson, 1>. Jan. 20, 1797; m. Caleb Woodman, Jan. 15, 1823; d. Feb. 

X, 1888. 
Hawaii, 1). April 2, 1708; d. June 13, 1826. 
Adams, b. Feb. 22, 1800; m. Sarah Bradley Eastman, Nov. 2T, 1832; d. Nov. 

18. 1873. 
Harrison, b. Sept. 30, 1801 ; m. Caroline Chadwick, 1X34; d. Nov. 3, 1841. 
Mehitable, b. Oct. 31, 1803; m. Eliphalet Kilburn, Jan. 1, 1832; d. Nov. 

9, 1899. 
Sarah, b. Dec. 7, 1805; d. May 31, 1890. 
Galen, b. Oct. 10, 1807; d. March 2, 1895. 
Stephen Symonds., b. Nov. 17, 1809; m. Abby Kelley, Dec. 21, 1845; d. Sept. 

8, 1881. 
David Morrill, b. Oct. 30, 181 1 : m. Sarah Bradley Robertson, Nov. 18, 1838; 

d. Nov. 24, 1884. 
Newell Abbott, b. Feb. 7, 1814; m. 1st, Eliza Allison; 2d, Ellen French; d. 

Nov. 20, 1868. 
Caroline, b. Jan. 13, 1816. 

Caroline Foster attended the village school in Canterbury, and 
the academy at Hanover, where she completed her studies. She 
then taught school for several years in New Hampshire and in Erie, 
J^enn. Called home to care for her parents in their declining years, 
she became their devoted companion and likewise a dearly loved 
foster-mother to motherless nieces and nephews. With a natural 
taste for nursing and the practice of medicine, she responded with 



264 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

ready sympathy to the many calls of kindred, neighbors and friends, 
and gave freely of her time and skill, her calm presence and sooth- 
ing touch bringing relief and healing. 

Her character, though gracious and yielding in non-essentials, 
is strong as the granite of her native hills, when a principle is 
at stake. When the anti-slavery agitation began under the leader- 
ship of William Lloyd Garrison, she threw herself, heart and soul, 
into the unpopular movement, cheerfully enduring the obloquv and 
social ostracism which such a course then entailed. She likewise 
became an early disciple of woman suffrage, and rigorously adhered 
to her father's belief in total abstinence as a cardinal principle. 

In spite of Puritan sternness, a beautiful charity marks Miss 
Foster's social intercourse, and on her rare mental and physical 
nature time makes no inroads. At the age of eighty-eight, her 
interest in the questions of the day is as vivid, and her sympathies 
are as warm, as if half a century of active life still lay before her. 
She was admitted to the National Society D. A. R. June 3, 1897, 
as a member of the Ruth Wyllys Chapter of Hartford, where she 
now resides. 

Adelaide (Foster) Brainard. 

(MRS. AUSTIN BRAINARD.) 

Alia W. Foster. 



STATIRA (HODGE) BEARDSLEE 

PHILO HODGE— PATRIOT 



^ 





STATIRA (HODGE) BEARDSLEE. 

JHILO HODGE, born in Milford, Conn., January 9, 1756, 
enlisted in January, 1776, from Roxbury, Conn., as a 
private in 

Colonel diaries Webb's Regiment 
Captain Peter Perritt's Company. 

In January, 1777. he enlisted again and served for three months, 
under Colonel Cook. He was in the battles of Long Island, White 
Plains, Princeton and Trenton. He was also present at the burn- 
ing of Danbury, April, 1778, in Captain Samuel Treat's Company, 
and was wounded in the service. He became a pensioner under 
the Act of 1818, and resided at Roxbury, Conn., where he died 
January 30, 1842. 



266 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Philo Hodge married first, Ketnra Armstrong, September 12, 
1778. Their marriage is recorded in the old Judea Church Record, 
now Washington, Connecticut. They had four children: 

Eunii k. b. 1779. Charlotte, b. about 1783. 

Lucretia, b. about 1781. Asenath, b. about 1785. 

Philo Hodge married second, January 1, 1787(F), Lucy Newton, 
and had the following children: 

Chauncey, b. July 10, 1791 ; d. in Roxbury in 1853, aged 62. 

Amanda, b. March 5, 1793. Susan and Sarah, twins, 

Samantha, b. July 8, 1795. b. July 4, 1806. 

I.i i v, b. July 29, 1797. Statira, b. April 5, 1808. 

Aurelia, b. Sept. 3, 1799. Philo Newton, b. Aug. 10, 1811. 

Betsy Polly, b. July 13, 1801. Justin, b. April 21, 1815. 

Mrs. Lucy Hodge died in Roxbury in 1853, aged eighty-four 
years. 

Statira Hodge was born in the town of Roxbury, where she 
lived until she was sixteen years old, when she began to teach, her 
first school being in Washington, Conn., and her last teaching being 
in a private school in New York City. 

She married in 1831 ( ?) JJogardus Beardslee of Washington, 
( Connecticut, where she resided for four years. In 1835 she removed 
with her husband to Hartford, which continued to be her home until 
her death, October 23, 1900, at the age of ninety-two. 

Airs, lleardslee was a widow for twenty-three years.* Her only 
childf died in 1886, leaving three children, with whom Mrs. Beards- 
Ice passed the later years of her life. She was a communicant of 
Christ Church, Hartford, and a faithful attendant upon its services 
until failing health prevented. 

She was admitted to membership in the National Society, and 
the Ruth Wyllys Chapter, March 22, 1898. In 1899, at the request 
of the Ruth Wyllys Chapter, she wrote a brief sketch of her life. 
Her manner of expression and her penmanship show an ease and 
culture which remained with her to the last. 

Mary Kingsbury Talcott. 

Authorities consulted for this sketch : Records of the Pension Bureau at 
Washington, D. C. 
Record of Connecticut Men in the ReYolution, pages 635 and 663. 
Autograph letter of Mrs. Beardslee. 

Mr. Beardslee died in 1877. f Mrs. Church. 



TIRZAH MORGAN PARSONS 

ISRAEL PARSONS— PATRIOT 




IRZAH MORGAN PARSONS was among the earliest 
members of the Connecticut D. A. R., having been 
admitted to the Ruth Wyllys Chapter, April 26, 1893.* 
She was born in Granville, Mass., and was the youngest 
of the twelve children of Israel Parsons and of his wife, Mary Mar- 
vin. Her early education was supplemented by several seasons at a 
popular school in Wethersfield, Conn., and afterwards at Westfield, 
Mass. Later a few years were spent in the homes of her brothers 
and with her sister, until the failing strength of her parents made 
her constant attendance necessary to them. After their death in 
1846, she removed to Hartford, where she lived for fifty-three years. 
Her death occurred on January 10, 1900. 

The following copy of the records of Israel Parsons' Revolu- 
tionary service is in the possession of his granddaughter :f 

"Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions. Washington, 
D. C. July 8, 1891 : — 'The following is a statement of so much of 
the history of Israel Parsons, a Revolutionary officer from Massa- 
chusetts, as is contained in his application for the pension which he 
received. 

(Signed) Andrew Davidson, 

Acting Commissioner." 

"Israel Parsons was born June 11, 1762, at Springfield, Hampden 
County, Mass., and in 1766 his father removed to Granville, Hamp- 
den County, Mass., where he was residing when he applied for a 
pension in 1832, and where he deceased, September 20, 1846. 
Before he was fifteen years old, i. e., early in April, 1777, he enlisted 
for three months, as private, under Captain William Cooley, marched 

*Her papers were signed al Washington, May 11, 1893. Her National 
number is 3098. Her gold D. A. R. spoon Miss Parsons willed to her niece, 
Mrs. Eliza Curtis Prescott of New York. 

t Mrs. Prescott. 



268 patriots' daughters of Connecticut chapters 

to Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, New York, from thence 
ordered to the Fort at Mount Independence as one of the garri- 
son, and engaged with parties in scouting, or patrolling the sur- 
rounding country, which was the scene of great activity from the 
presence of the invading army under General Burgoyne. 

"In September, 1777, he volunteered for two months, expecting 
to go to Saratoga, N. Y., and to oppose the advance of General 
Burgoyne, but when he arrived at, or near Albany, he was detached, 
and appointed by Oliver Phelps, Commissary for Massachusetts, to 
bring stores to commissaries at several places, for the army. 

"In December, 1777, he enlisted for six months under Captain 
William Cooler, proceeded to Springfield, Mass., where he was 
placed in command of Captain John Morgan's (company?) as gar- 
rison and guard of the Arsenal, where was a park of one hundred 
cannon, a large storehouse of muskets, and military equipments, 
with a large amount of property from the army of General Bur- 
goyne, who had surrendered at Saratoga, October 17, 1777. 

"In September, 1778, he enlisted under the Commissary General 
for Massachusetts, Oliver Phelps, was appointed by him superin- 
tendent of transportation of prisoners to the army and military 
posts on the Hudson River, and also express to and from the army 
on important occasions, which continued 1779, 1780, 1781, 1782. 
He was Assistant to Commissary General Oliver Phelps, in 1782, 
1783. In 1783 he acted as Commissary at New Windsor, near West 
Point, in room of Commissary Post, who was taken sick and finally 
retired from the station. 

"Israel Parsons was personally known to General Washington, 
and was ordered to his headquarters and directed to furnish the 
necessary provisions to the troops. By great personal and fatiguing 
exertions he succeeded in complying with the objects and desire 
of the Commander-in-Chief, in such a manner as to elicit from him 
testimonials of his satisfaction, with the highest commendation of 
his conduct.'' 

Israel Parsons was born on June 11, 1762, at West Springfield. 
Mary Marvin, his wife, was born February 25, 1767. They were 
married February, 1787. Their children were: 

Almira, b. Dec. 30, 1787. Ezra Marvin, b. May 20, 1798. 

Joseph, 1). July 27. 1789. Persee, b. Nov. 19, 1800. 

Ezra Marvin, b. April 7, 1792. Israel Merick, b. July 12, 1802. 

Marytta, b. June 23, 1794. Alsop, b. Sept. 18, 1804. 

Susannah, b. July 3, 1796. Marshfield, b. Oct. 7, 1808. 

Tirzali Morgan, b. Nov. 9, 1812; d. Jan. 10, 1900. 

Mary Kingsbury Talcott. 



Sabra Trumbull Chapter 



ROCKVILLE 



Daughters of Patriots 

f BARNARD EDDY 

— Captain 

JULIA (EDDY) CALDER BARNARD EDDY, 2D 

i 

[_ — Captain 



EMELINE (NOBLE) HOLLISTER GIDEON NOBLE 

— Fifer 



ANNA PARKHURST (KNOWLTON) 

BIRD WILLIAM KNOWLTON 

AMY STRICKLAND SETH STRICKLAND 



JULIA (EDDY) CALDER 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILIES 
WESTCOTT-EDDY 





JULIA (EDDY) CALDER. 

ABRA TRUMBULL CHAPTER has the honor of hav- 
ing had among its members four "Real Daughters," 
onlv one of whom is now living. Airs. Julia (Eddy) 
Calder, 

Mrs. Calder was born January 9, 1828, in Providence, R. I., where 
she still resides.* She is the daughter of Barnard Eddy, 2d, and 
of Julia Granville Westcott, his second wife. Her father, Barnard 
Eddy, 2d. was born in Providence, R. I., on the twelfth of July, 1762. 

;: Airs. Calder has two relatives who are resident members of the Rockville 
Chapter. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 271 

The name of his father, Barnard Eddy, ist, appears frequently 
in connection with Providence town affairs. The earliest reference 
to his name, found on the town records in Providence, is dated 
Feb. 18, 1754, when Barnard Eddy, shipwright, and wife Patience 
took a poor boy of the town of Providence as an apprentice to learn 
the "art and mystery" of a shipwright.* It is stated that they 
were of Swanzey, Mass. Three years later they are in Providence 
and own land there. f 

On January 10, 1761, Barnard Eddy was taxed £1-10 for freight 
on a "'Large Water Engine," then in transit from London, where 
it had been purchased for the town's use in case of fire4 Later 
he built bridges and other works, and the town treasurer's report 
in 1765 shows that £310-13-11 had been paid to him. 

At the outbreak of the Revolution, Barnard Eddy appears to have 
been one of the most active men in Providence in the work of 
defending the town against the enemy. On May 15, 1775 (a few 
weeks after the Concord and Lexington fights), the town passed a 
vote requiring a watch established to prevent any surprise on the 
town and for its general protection. In the list of names of those 
assigned to watch appears the name "Barnard Eddv 3 nights. "§ 

On September 6, 1775, Barnard Eddy reported a "list of men's 
names. Guns, Bayonets, Cartridges, Cartridge-Boxes, Flints, Powder 
and Halls, Swords and Pistols, in the hands of the inhabitants" of 
Providence — Barnard Eddy being the "Committee to ascertain the 
number of arms in the town fit for use."|| On February 9, 1776. 
his name is found in a list of persons, on the west side of the Bridge, 
in whose hands, guns, bayonets and cartridges could be found. fl" 

In 1776, Captain Eddy was given charge of constructing the forti- 
fications at Field's and Sassafras Points, to protect the town of 

* Providence Town Paper, No. 238. 

f Deed Book 14, p. 293, Providence Records of Land Evidence. 
i Providence Town Paper. No. 344. 
§ Providence Town Paper, No. 803. 

II Providence City Archives, MSS. report in the custody of the Record 
Commissioners. 
H Providence Town Paper, No. l(?)884. 



272 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Providence in case of an attack by the British. The works then 
built are still preserved ; the one at Field's Point is called Fort 
Independence, the one at Sassafras Point is called Robin Hill Fort. 
In the same year (1776), Barnard Eddy, 1st, was appointed by the 
Continental Congress, captain of a company, which was to be 
recruited by him, and which was composed entirely of ship car- 
penters who were to build ships for the defense of the lakes of 
the upper Hudson River region. The following paragraphs are 
copied from letters in the Archives of American Forces : 

Governor Nicholas Cole, Providence, Rhode Island, to the Presi- 
dent of Congress, July 16, 1776: 

I have appointed Captain Barnard Eddy a very suitable person the 
chief carpenter. He has already enlisted twenty men who are to 
be provided well with tools and arms at the same rate at which the 
Marine Committee have enlisted those at Philadelphia. He informed 
me he shall be able to procure the whole number required of us 
and march with them on Monday or Tuesday next at the farthest. 
He proposes to send off baggage on Saturday. 

Volume I., Fifth Series, page 377. 

Captain Eddy to General Gates : On Saturday last I was honored 
with the command of the General Congress to procure fifty ship 
carpenters to build ships for the defense of the lakes. 

Vol. I., Fifth Series, p. 378. 

A third letter written to General Gates is dated as follows at 

Williamstown, August 17th, 1776. 
Sir:— 

I am requested by Captain Eddy, commander of a company of 
ship carpenters from Rhode Island, to inform you that said Captain 
and company having been exposed to take the small pox on their 
march from Rhode Island (as will be seen by the enclosed) have 
since been inoculated and are now sick with some disorder in 
Williamstown. and that Captain Eddy being taken violent with 
dysenterv despairs of his life, but is still most anxious for the 
welfare of his soldiers. Volume I., Fifth Series, page 1003. 

In a fourth letter, the "noble spirit of Captain Eddy" is com- 
mended by Washington. Volume I., Fifth Series, page 1282. 

Captain Eddy was only forty-eight years old when he contracted 
small pox at Crown Point and died, leaving a widow and five minor 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 273 

children. Captain Eddy died in the summer of 1777. His son, 
Barnard Eddy, 2d, enlisted in the spring of 1777, when not fifteen 
years of age, in a company commanded by his father. At the time 
of his enlistment, Barnard Eddy, 2d, was very tall and well developed, 
and although a private under fifteen years of age, he was afterwards 
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and won much distinction under 
Captain Batenburg, until as a commissioned captain he commanded 
a company of his own. His term of service in the War of the 
Revolution was two years and four months. He applied for a pen- 
sion August 9, 1832, and received it April 22, 1833. * 

Mrs. Calder remembers well her father's tales concerning the 
hardships endured by his mother and of her sacrifices to the patriots' 
cause. All of their pewter platters were melted to make shot, and 
many families almost lived on boiled chestnuts. The patriot also 
frequently related to his children the story of the burning of the 
Gaspec. 

The Eddys were of good Pilgrim stock. Samuel and Elizabeth 
Eddy, their earliest ancestors in this country, settled in Plymouth, 
Massachusetts, October 29, 1630. Elizabeth Eddy was a woman of 
marked energy and independence of character. On one occasion 
she shocked the colony by walking to Boston on the Sabbath day 
to visit a sick friend, whom she had known in London. Upon her 
return to Plymouth she was called before the court, but when her 
reason for making the journey was given, the court chose to regard 
it as an errand of mercy and dismissed her with the caution to "do 
so no more." 

In 1640, Samuel Eddy the Pilgrim, with several of his neighbors, 
bought from the Indians a large tract of land about twenty miles 
west of Plymouth, and founded the town of Middleborough. There 
his descendants lived and multiplied and the village of Eddyville 
was built up, which all of his line regard as their "Jerusalem.'" 
On the very spot where the first Samuel Eddy settled, his descend- 
ants now live, the old homestead having never been abandoned. ' 

In the great gale of September, 181 5, Barnard Eddy's house, 
on Eddy's Point in Providence, was swept away with all its con- 
tents and entirely destroyed. In this general destruction, the family 

* The above record is found in Barnard Eddy, 2d's, application for a pension. 



274 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

records and papers were lost, including genealogical matter of value. 
Three weeks later the old family clock was found under a pile 
of lumber, was thoroughly repaired and is now ticking away the 
hours in the home of a son of Mrs. Calder in Providence. 

On the maternal side also, Mrs. Calder is the descendant of a 
Revolutionary hero. Her mother was Julia Granville Westcott, the 
daughter of John Westcott. who served as one of 

General Sullivan's Life Guards.* 

John Westcott was the son of Stakely Westcott, of Bristol, R. L, 

and was born in 1757: he married Mary Sanford (born in 17(H); 
died January 23, 1823); they had eleven children, as follows: 

John Westcott, b. Oct. 27. 1778; left home and was never heard from. 

Martha Westcott, b. Aug. 8, 1780: d. May 9, 1781. 

Sanford Westcott, b. March 11. 1782; d. May 15. 1782. 

Esborn, b. June 22, 1783; d. Aug.. 1849. 

Mary, b. Oct. 14, 1786; d. Sept. 3, [866 

Martha. 2d, b. Dec. 15, 1787; d. May 1, 1876. 

William, b. Feb. 17. 1790; d. Feb. 17, 1790. 

Julia Granville, b. Feb. 28, 1791 ; m. Barnard Eddy; d. April 14. 1865. 

Harriet B., b. Dec. 24, 1793; d. Dec. 31. [868. 

Clarissa 11.. b. Feb. 24. 1796; d. Feb. 23. 1880. 

Edwin, b. Oct. 22, 1798; d. in Cuba of fever. 

John Westcott, the patriot, died June 23, 1825. 

Captain Barnard Eddy, 1st, was born October 11, 172c); he mar- 
ried in 1753, Patience Eddy (daughter of Zachariah Eddy). It 
appears from the Probate records of Providence that Barnard Eddy 
died in 1777, administration on his estate being' granted June 10, 
I777.f The date and place of his death do not appear. The inven- 
tory of his estate amounted to £161-5-10 including "an old negro 
man not worth much." At the time of his death he left the follow- 
ing children: Jeremiah, in 1779. 21 years old; Barnard, in 1770. 

* The family have no official record of John Westcott's service under Gen- 
eral Sullivan, hut a notice of John Westcott's death has been preserved 
by them, stating the fact of his services in that capacity. Mrs. Calder remem- 
bers that her mother often mentioned her own father's service as having 
extended over many years. John Westcott never applied for a pension and 
his exact term of service may not have been recorded. 

f Will Book 6, p. 190. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 275 

15 years old : Patience, in 1779, 18 years old; Eunice and Abigail,* 
both under 14 years of age in 1779. 

Barnard Eddy, 2d, was born July 12, 1762, in Providence, R. I.; 
he married first, October 7, 1785, Betsey Walker (who died in 1816). 
Their children were : 

Ruth Ann, m. Benjamin W. Gardiner. 

Patience, unmarried. 

Betsey, m. Jeremiah Williams. 

Maria, m. Daniel Clarke. 

Stephen. 

Barnard Eddy, 2d, married second, October 14. 1817, Julia Gran- 
ville Westcott. born February 28, 1791 ; died April 14, 1865, in 
Providence, R. I. 

Their children were : 
Edwin Barnard Eddy, b. Aug. 21, 1818, Providence, R. I. ; m. 1st, Sarah Jenks 

Shaw ; 2d, Nancy P. Dodge : d. May 27, 1885. 
James Anthony Eddy, b. Dec. 15, 1819; m. Sarah Wheaton Hathaway; 

d. June, 1886. 
Jeremiah Eddy. b. April 1, 1823; d. April 1, 1823. 
Stephen Gano Eddy, b. Feb. 25, 1824; d. Aug. 8, 1825. 
Julia Frances Eddy, b. Jan. 9, 1828; m. Oct. 14, 1847, John Lewis Calder 

(who died Jan. 25, 1887). 

Barnard Eddy, 2d, died July 3, 1847, in Providence, R. I. 

* Through his youngest daughter Abigail, Patriot Barnard Eddy, 1st. has 
the following descendants : 

Abigail Eddy, in. Richard Anthony ; children — Eunice, Lydia, 

b. Feb. 20J 1765. James, Mary Chace, Cyrus, 

d. Sept. 13, 1S46. Richard, Elizabeth Eddy, 

Richard Bowen. 

Elizabeth Eddy Anthony, m. Thomas Lewis ; children— Edward, Richard 

b. Jan. 28, 1805. March 18, 1828. Anthony, Cyrus, Mary, 

d. June 24, 1868. Lydia, Sarah Abigail, 

James Henry, John. 

Richard Anthony Lewis, m. Sarah Patterson Hail ; children— Elizabeth Eddy, 
b. Sept. 14, 1830. March 7, 1855. George Hail, Arthur Pat- 

terson, Henry Anthony, 
Frank Nichols, Walter 
Gibbs. 

Elizabeth Eddy Lewis, m. Carlton Montague Moody, 
b. Sept. 4, 1856. March 6, 1S79. 



276 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Julia Frances Eddy, the patriot's daughter, married in 1847, J onn 
Lewis Calder, whose grandfather was a soldier of the Revolutionary 
war. Their children were : 

John Barnard, b. Dec. 31, 1849; m. Oct. 22, 1874, Mary Anna Phillips, (b. 

Dec. 23, 1851). 
Edwin Eddy, b. March 17, 1853; m. Dec. 23, 1875, Ella A. T. Elsbree (b. 

March 18, 1854. 
Louis Herbert, b. July 8, 1855 ; m. May, 1890, Lizzie Oriette Goodrich 

(b. May 23, 1871). 
Charles Granville, b. Aug. 4, 1857 ; m. Oct. 28, 1880, Florence Nightingale 

Williams (b. Dec. 19, 1857). 
Mary Adelaide, b. Oct. 11, 1859; d. Jan. 8, i860. 
William James, b. June 8, 1862; m. Oct. 6, 1887, Sarah Melissa Randall 

(b. Sept. 19, 1863). 
Heman Lincoln, b. Nov. 22, 1864; m. Sept. 10, 1895, Jennie Medora Pur- 

rington (b. Aug. 2, 1866). 

Airs. Calder may indeed be called a "real Daughter of the 
American Revolution," her father, two grandfathers and her hus- 
band's grandfather having served the patriot cause. 

Jessie Key es (Anthony) Jackson. 

(MRS. CYRUS FRANKLIN JACKSON.) 

Authority : Connecticut Men in the Revolution. 

The paragraphs and letters taken from Archives of American Forces, quoted 
in this sketch, were copied by Mrs. Joseph J. Casey, Registrar-General, D. R. 
The data concerning Captain Barnard Eddy's services to his town and 
country, taken from Providence Records, were copied from a letter written 
by Mr. Edward Field, of Providence, R. I., and were contributed to this 
sketch by Mrs. Carlton M. Moody, Recording Secretary-General of the 
Society, Daughters of the Revolution. Mrs. Moody (Elizabeth Eddy (Lewis) 
is a descendant of Patriot Captain Barnard Eddy the first. 



EMELINE (NOBLE) HOLLISTER 

GIDEON NOBLE— PATRIOT 




jMELINE (NOBLE) HOLLISTER was born January 7, 
1802, the sixth daughter and youngest child of Dr. 
Gideon Noble and of Lucy Wells, his wife. Gideon 
Noble was the son of the Rev. and Mrs. Gideon Noble, 
and was born in the town of Wellington, Conn., on August 3, 1763. 
Early in the war of the Revolution, a company of soldiers was 
raised in his native town, and, being destitute of a fifer they per- 
suaded the Rev. Gideon Noble to allow his son to serve in that 
capacity. The boy was only twelve years of age, but was a good 
musician, and often the soldiers, with whom he was a favorite, 
carried him on their shoulders over difficult places, while he played 
"March Away." Between 1775 and 1783 he served four times; 
first from July 8, 1775, to October 12, 1775, under 

Colonel Charles Webb, Seventh Regiment 
Captain Edward Shipman, Sixth Company. 

This regiment was raised in July, recruited in Fairfield, Litch- 
field and New Haven counties. Its companies were stationed at 
various points along the Sound until September 14, when, on 
requisition from Washington, the regiment was ordered to the Bos- 
ton Camps. There it was assigned to General Sullivan's Brigade 
on Winter Hill, at the left of the besieging line, and there remained 
until the expiration of its term of service.* The following year. 

* At the close of his first term of service, Oct. 12, 1775, and just before 
his discharge, Gideon Noble was inoculated for small pox. On the homeward 
journey he took cold and was confined to his bed for months. The expense 
of his illness and consulting physicians amounted to £14 10s. 6d. Six 
years later, on January 10, 1782, his father made application for reimburse- 
ment to the General Assembly of Connecticut, and it was voted to pay this 
sum to his father. 



278 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

in June, young Gideon Noble joined a regiment raised to reinforce 
Washington at New York, which was stationed in New York City 
and on Long Island until its time expired, October 25, 1776. Again, 
he enlisted as fifer on March 1, 1777, "for the War," in the 

Third Battalion, Wadsworth's Brigade 

Colonel Comfort Sage 
Captain Jonathan Parker (Willington). 

He served during the summer and fall along the Hudson River 
under Putnam. On November 14, 1777, Colonel Sage's regiment 
was ordered to join Washington's army in Pennsylvania, and on 
December 8. engaged in the sharp action of Whitemarsh, wintered 
at Yalley Forge in 1777-78, and was present July 28, following, 
at the battle of Monmouth. This regiment wintered in 1778-79 at 
Redding, Conn., served on the east side of the Hudson River in 
General Heath's wing during the operations of 1779, and was 
engaged in the storming of Stony Point on July 15, 1779. This 
regiment wintered in 1779-80 at Morristown, and served on the 
outposts. Gideon Noble served also in the Second Regiment, 
"Connecticut Line," Colonel Charles Webb. 

In 1780 a "Corps of Invalids" was formed, consisting of eight 
companies to be employed in garrison duty, and for guards in cities 
and other places, where magazines, arsenals or hospitals were 
placed ; and also to serve as military instructors of young men, 
preparing for marching orders. It was composed in the first 
instance of officers and men who had been rendered by casualty 
or otherwise incapable of field service, but who could still perform 
light duty. Gideon Noble joined this "Corps of Invalids" Decem- 
ber 13, 1780, as fifer, and was discharged April 23, 1783. 

Gideon Noble married Lucy Wells, February J 8, 1787. and they 
had six children. He died July 29, 1807 and his widow mar- 
ried, seven years later, Amos Hollister, who was a farmer and ship- 
builder in South Glastonbury, Conn. 

Emeline Noble was the youngest child of Dr. Gideon Noble and 
of Lucy W'ells, his wife. She grew to womanhood and married 
Chester Hollister, the son of her mother's second husband. They 
lived in South Glastonbury. Five children were born to them, two 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 279 

sons and three daughters, all of whom grew to manhood and 
womanhood, married, had children of their own, and passed on 
before her. A few years ago, after the death of her husband, Mrs. 
Hollister removed to Auburn, N. Y., and resided there for the 
remainder of her life. Ten years before her death, Mrs. Hollister 
suffered a shock of paralysis, after which she was unable to walk, 
but, attended by a faithful man servant, she was rolled to a bright 
window in a front room, where she spent her days, cared for by 
two granddaughters. Her mind remained clear and her eyesight 
good. At ninety-eight years of age there were distinct traces of 
youthful beauty in her blue eyes and fresh, clear skin. Possessed 
of a lovely disposition, she retained her amiability and attractive- 
ness as long as she lived. Her small white hands were far from 
useless, as she filled her days hemming sheets and pillow cases for 
a hospital, and making undergarments for the poor. Her letters 
were witty and well composed, and her penmanship would put 
to shame many letters of the rising generation. 

She came from a long-lived race, her great-grandmother having 
lived to be ninety-nine years of age ; her grandmother was ninety, 
her mother ninety-nine, and one sister ninety-four years old. Mrs. 
Hollister passed away April i, 1900, aged ninety-eight years. 



Dr. Gideon Noble, of Willington, Conn., was born August 3, 
1763 ; he died July 29, 1807. Lucy Wells, his wife, was born 
September 16, 1765 ; she died January 23, 1864. They were married 
February 18, 1787. Their children were: 

Julia, b. March 14, 1788; m. John Mather; d. — 



Harriet, 1). Jan. 10, 1791 ; m. Wadsworth Hollister; d. Feb. 1, 1811. 
\mwda, b. Nov. 10, 1792; d. April 21, 1793. 

Louisa, b. Dec. 11, 1794; d. 1798. 

Eliza, b. Mar. 7, 1799; m. Jan. t. 1817, George Kellogg; d. Sept. 21, 1892. 
Emeline,b. Jan. 7, 1802; 111. Aug. 31, 1818, Chester Hollister; d. April 1, 1900. 



280 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

The children of Emeline Noble by her marriage to Chester Hollis- 
ter were : 

Augusta Wells, b. Jan. i, 1820; m. Sept. u, 1844, Rev. Henry Dutton Noble; 

d. Dec. 26, 1894. 
Alfred Wright, b. June 18, 1822; m. Jan. 11, 1848, Julia Esther Newton; 

d. June 24, 1863. 
Frances Noble, b. July 17, 1824; m. Nov. 8, 1846, Charles S. Weatherby; 

d. May 18, 1852. 
Wadsworth, b. Oct. 17, 1827; 111. May 26, 1852, Caroline Van Vechten; 

d. April 11, 1895. 
Henrietta Lucy, b. Feb. 2, 1843; rn. Dec. 30, 1864, John Young Selover; 

d. Sept. 20. 1869. 

Jessie Carolena (Jackson) McChristie. 

(MRS. ROBERT LOGAN MC CHRISTIE.) 

Julia .-llice Maxwell. 

Authority: Conn. Men in the Revolution, pp. 82, 160, 296, 401. 

Conn. Archives of the Revolutionary War, vol. xxii ; Docu- 
ments 148. 
History and Genealogy of the family of Thomas Noble of 
Westfield, Mass. Compiled by Lucius M. Boltwood, pp. 
398-399- 



ANNA PARKHURST (KNOWLTON) BIRD 

WILLIAM KNOWLTON— PATRIOT 




XX A PARKHURST KNOWLTON was born at White 
River Junction, Vt., August 9, 1812, the daughter of 
William Knowlton, who enlisted, when only fifteen 
years of age, in 

Captain Durkee's Company of Matrosses. 

This company was part of a "Provisional Regiment" ordered by 
the General Assembly "to be raised and put in readiness to march, 
on the shortest notice, in case His Excellency, General Washing- 
ton, shall call for them." William Knowlton served from August 
12, 1782, for one year from the date of enlistment. 

William Knowlton was born in Ashford. Conn.. January, 1767, 
and married Betsey Noonan, who was born in Ashford, in 1778. 
Their children were : 

William, b. — — 1804, White River Junction, Vt. ; not married; d. July I, 

1831. 
Laura, b. 1806. White River Junction, Vt. ; not married ; d. Sept. 7, 

1853- 
Anna Parkhitrst, b. Aug. 9, 1812, White River Junction, Vt. ; m. Dec. 18, 
1838, Rev. Thompson Bird; d. Jan. 4, 1901, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Anna Knowlton attended the Academy in Norwich, Vt., also Mrs. 
Willard's Seminary in Troy, N. Y., and afterwards she was engaged 
in teaching in the South. While there she met the Rev. Thompson 
Bird, a Presbyterian minister of North Carolina, and they were 
married in Petersburg, Va., December 18, 1838. From North Caro- 
lina, Mrs. Bird and her husband removed to Thornton, Ind. Here 
their three children were born, two sons and a daughter. Both 
sons served in the late Civil War. 

In 1847, ^ r . and Mrs. Bird removed to Des Moines, Iowa, which 
was then a military post on the frontier. Rev. Mr. Bird was the 




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DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 283 

first Presbyterian minister in Des Moines. He remained there until 
his death, twenty-two years later, January 4, 1869. Mrs. Bird con- 
tinned to reside in Des Moines, in her own home, for the remainder 
of her life, until she passed away on January 4, 1901, at the age of 
eighty-eight. Two of her three children are living, three grand- 
children and one great-grandchild, as the following record shows : 

William Knowlton, b. Sept. 9, 1840, Thornton, Tnd. ; m. Nov. 14, 1866, Mary 
H. Earle of Milton, Wis.; (one daughter, Anna May, who died in 
infancy;) d. March n, 1897, Des Moines, Iowa. 
Empson, b. July 16, 1843, Thornton, Ind. ; unmarried. 

Louisa, b. Feb. 22, 1847, Thornton, Ind. ; m. Oct. 25, 1870, Arthur A. Hyde, 
of Ellington, Conn. Their children, all born in Ellington, are: 
Empson Bird. b. Sept. 6, 1871 ; not married. 
Oliver Thompson, b. Aug. 4, 1875 '• not married. 
Fanny Ellsworth, b. Sept. 10, 1877; m. Feb. 6, 1901, James D. 
Keyes of Des Moines, Iowa ; they have one child, namely, 
Arthur Hyde, who was born Dec. 28, 1901. 
Anna Mather, b. June 9, 1880; d. Aug. 8, 1880. 

Mrs. Bird was only eight years of age when her father died 
(in June, 1820), and her recollections of him are indistinct. She 
remembers, however, hearing her mother relate his experiences 
while serving in the war. At one time he was without food for 
three days, when he tried to relieve his hunger by chewing pine 
sticks and swallowing the juice! 

During her lifetime three generations of her family were members 
of Sabra Trumbull Chapter: Mrs. Bird, her daughter and her 
granddaughter. 

Jessie Carolena (Jackson) McChristie. 

(MRS. ROBERT LOGAN MCCHRISTIE.) 

Authority: Connecticut Men in the Revolution, p. 588. (Knowlton is 
spelled "Knolton.") 
Genealogical data was furnished by Mrs. Louisa Bird Hyde. 



AMY STRICKLAND 

SETH STRICKLAND— PATRIOT 




HE echoes from the battle of Bunker Hill had been silent 
a quarter of a century, when Amy Strickland was born 
in Chatham, Conn. On June 17, 1800, she first saw 
* the light, and witnessed the opening, and the progress 
of almost the entire nineteenth century. She passed away September 
4, 1897. She lived for ninety-seven years on the old homestead lot. 
The early home of the family still stands. To make room for the 
new home which was built after the war and in which Seth Strick- 
land, the patriot, lived many years, the early home was moved back, 
and the old looms which were used at that time are in the chambers 
now. 

Her father, Seth Strickland, enlisted and served for a time in 
the early part of the Revolutionary War. Again, in 1780, he served 
with the Eighth Connecticut Regiment, from August until December. 
During this time his regiment was with the main army encamped 
on the banks of the Hudson. For his services during the war his 
widow received a pension. 

His family was noted for longevity. His wife, Annie, lived to 
be ninety-four, and three of his daughters were ninety-three, ninety- 
five and ninety-seven years old when they died. Nearly a hundred 
years were covered by Miss Strickland's life. She saw the nation 
grow from five to seventy millions. The inventions which have 
made the nineteenth century stand out alone in the procession of 
the ages — the steamboat, the locomotive, the telegraph ; the cable 
linking two continents, the telephone, and other wonderful electri- 
cal inventions, — all developed within that span. 

Miss Strickland spent her life in service for others, except for 
one year before her death, when she was confined to her bed. 
Always patient and thoughtful for those about her, unselfishness 
was the kevnote of her character. And thus ninetv vears were 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 285 

passed in ministering to others — years of sweetness, of self-denial 
and sunshine ! 

Seth Strickland, the patriot, was the son of Richard and Martha 
Strickland. He was born March 8, 1758, and married, May 17, 
1 78 1, Annie Shepard, the daughter of John and Silence (Penfield) 
Shepard. Annie Shepard was born October 7. 1761. The children 
of Seth Strickland and Annie Shepard Strickland, his wife, were : 

Asexath. b. July 21, 1785; d. Feb. 11. 1880. 

Annie, b. Oct. 2, 1789; m. Alexander Hale; d. May 1, 1885; tbey bad eight 
children, namely : 

Daniel. 

Harriet (Hale) Case. 

Ann Eliza (Hale) Thomas. 

John. 

Seth. 

Vienna (Hale) Baker 

Lucy (Hale) Baker. 

Alexander. 

Ammiel, b. Jan. 5, 1793; m. Susan Penfield; d. Aug. 3, 1848; they had four 
children : 

Emily (Strickland) White. 
Jane (Strickland) Dunham. 
Susan. 
John. 

Sabra, b. March 15, 1796; m. 1st, Asa Bowe ; 2d, Benjamin Ashley; d. Jan. 
11. 1863; she had children as follows: 

Julia Augusta, b. Aug. 24. 1826; m. 1st, Frank Holmes. 2d, Cyrus. 

Edson. 
Mary Jane. b. Dec. 5. 1829; m. Elijah Covelle ; d. 1856. 
Frances Maria, b. Dec. 13, 1830; m. Lucius E. Thompson. 

Martha, b. May 11, 1798; d. April 15, 1876. 
Amy, b. June 17. 1800; d. Sept. 4, 1897. 
Vienna, b. Jan. 2, 1804; d. Dec. 26, 1863. 

Seth Strickland, the patriot, died July 15, 1828; his wife died 
May 16, 1856. 

Jessie Carolcna (Jackson) McGhristic. 

(MRS. ROBERT LOGAN MC CHRISTIE.) 

Authority: Conn. Men in the Revolution, p. 240. 



'There are men and women for whom Faith, Hope and Charity forever 
abide . . . women who bear their own sorrows by soothing the sorrows 
of others; youths who, when duty whispers low 'Thou must,' reply 'I can'; 
and old men to whom the experience of life has taught the same brave 
lesson — examples of patriotism that will give its life for its country when 
in the right, and the patriotism that will make itself of no reputation if need 
be to save its country from being in the wrong." 

Reminiscences: George Frisbie Hoar. 



"How precious are added years to the fulness of the intellectual life" . . 

"Oh the happiness of the fortunate old men [and women] whose thoughts 
went deeper and deeper like a wall that runs out into the sea!" 



Philip Gilbert Hammerton. 



Sarab Xublow Chapter 



SEYMOUR 



Daughters of 

SARAH (CANDEE;. FAIRCHILD 



patriots 
JOB CANDEE 



-Musician 



AUGUSTA (WOOSTER LUM 



EPHRAIM WOOSTER 

— Corporal 



Sarah IRiggs Humphreys Chapter 



IDaugbter of 

ELIZA (WHEELER; BAILEY 



patriot 

HEZEKIAH WHEELER 




SARAH (CANDEE) FAIRCHILD. 



SARAH (CANDEE) FA1RCHILD 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILY— CANDEE 




HE Candee family has been represented in the Army and 
Navy of the United States from the earliest period in 
its history, and furnishes instances of longevity which 
are worthy of mention. Early in the sixteenth cen- 
tury a Huguenot family of the same name as the great Conde fled 
from France to Scotland. One of this family afterward emigrated 
to America, and settled in Connecticut. Flis son, Zaccheus Conde, 
born in New Haven in 1640, became the ancestor of the Candee 
family in this country. 

Caleb Candee, the grandfather of our "Daughter," married Lois 
Mallory in 1743. and moved to Oxford, Conn. Of this marriage 
were born ten sons ; one died in infancy, and of the other nine, two 
died between seventy and eighty, six between eighty and ninety, 
and one between ninety and one hundred years of age. It is also 
worthy of note, that all of these nine brothers served in the Revo- 
lutionary War, a circumstance probably unparalleled. Job Candee, 
one of these brothers, was the father of Sarah (Candee) Fairchild. 
Job Candee was born in West Haven in 1759, and in July, 1776, 
when only seventeen years of age, he enlisted as a "musician" under 

Colonel Jabez Thompson. 
The next year he joined the ranks as a private, and served until 
the close of the war. We find his name on a list of Oxford pen- 
sioners early in the last century, also the record that "Daniel and 
Job Candee erected the hotel building in 1795" still used and known 
as the "Oxford House." Here the first post office was kept, Daniel 
being landlord and postmaster for many years. 

Captain Job Candee married Sarah, daughter of Enos Benham 
of Aliddlebury, Conn. Their children were : 

EnoSj 111. Betsey Perkins 

Horace, m. Caroline Judson. 

Leveritt, b. June 20, 1795 ; m. Jane Caroline Tomlinson; one son, Charles. 



290 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Laura, m. Daniel Tucker. 

Esther, m. Charles Tomlinson. 

Roxv, m. Charles Booth. 

Sarah E., b. June 15, 1807; m. Ebenezer Fairchild, October 14. 1827. 

Sarah (Benham) Candee died very suddenly March 20, 1840, 
aged seventy-five years. 

Captain Job Candee lived until December 2, 1845, being eighty- 
six years of age. A newspaper clipping of his obituary, in Mrs. 
Fairchild's possession, reads as follows: "The subject of this notice 
possessed a substantial mind, social feelings and a generous heart. 
The poor ever found in him a friend, in time of need. His charac- 
ter through life was one of unimpeachable integrity. He has left 
a numerous family and a large circle of friends. . . . The 
average age of the two generations, — namely, the families of Caleb 
(Job's father) and of the latter's brother, Nehemiah, in all nine- 
teen children — is eighty-seven and one-half years, and what is 
most remarkable, they all retained their bodily and mental faculties, 
and their power of enjoyment in the world's good things, until they 
passed away." 

Sarah Candee, the youngest child of Job and Sarah (Benham) 
Candee, was born June 15, 1807. She married October 14, 1827, 
Ebenezer Fairchild of Oxford, Conn. They had children as follows : 
Charles E., born March 12, 183 1 ; Mary J., born February 2, 1835 ; 
Henry L., born 1845. 

Mr. and Mrs. Fairchild moved to Seymour many years ago. Mr. 
Fairchild died in February, 1880. 

Mrs. Fairchild inherited the characteristics of her race. In her 
ninety-first year she was comparatively strong in mind and bod)', 
able to read, write and sew, and to visit her friends in Seymour 
and adjacent towns. The Sarah Ludlow Chapter held a public 
celebration of her ninetieth birthday, at which she assisted in receiv- 
ing and entered more thoroughly than anyone into the enjoyment 
of the occasion. She died August 20, 1899. The date of her 
admission to the National Society is May 7, 1896, and her 
National number 13,219. 

Julia A. Dubois James. 

I MRS. THOM \s [.. JAMES. I 

Ruth Sanford. 



AUGUSTA (WOOSTER) LUM 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILY— WOOSTER 





AUGUSTA ( WOOSTER) LUM. 

l"( rUSTA WOOSTER was born October 13th, 1802, and 
was the daughter of Ephraim Wooster and Mittie Yose, 
his wife. 

Ephraim Wooster enlisted May 15th, 1775. in 

Colonel David Waterbury's Regiment 

Captain Joseph Smith's Company 

Corporal Ephraim Wooster. 

This was the fifth regiment which was raised on the first call for 
troops by the Connecticut Legislature in April and May. 1775, and 



292 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

was recruited mainly in Fairfield County. The regiment marched 
first to New York under General Wooster — young Wooster's uncle — 
and then to the Northern Department. Ephraim Wooster received 
his discharge from this service on December 9th, 1775. He enlisted 
again October 25th, 1776, in 

Major Elisha Sheldon's Regiment of Light Horse 
Captain Moses Seymour's Company, 

and served until December 20th, 1776. He again enlisted in 1779 
in response to the New Haven and Norwalk "Alarms"; he marched 
July 8th in the regiment commanded by 

Major Thomas Bull 
Captain Moses Seymour's Company, 

and was discharged Jul}" 18th, T779. His name is also found on a 
pay-roll of 

Colonel Whiting's Regiment 
Captain Joseph Birdsey's Company. 

This company served five days during the New Haven Alarm. He 
was granted a pension in 1832.* 

Ephraim Wooster was killed (about 1835) by the bursting of 
the boiler of the steamer United States, on his way home from 
New York to New Haven. His body was found and taken to New 
York for burial two weeks before his family knew of the accident, 
so slowly did news travel in those days ! A stone has been erected 
to his memory in Great Hill Cemetery, Seymour. 

Augusta Wooster married John Lum, Jr., February 26, 1828. 
Their children were : 

Clark Lum, b. 1831 ; d. Feb. 5, 1889, aged 58. 

Sarah, b. 1832; m. Julius Bassett; d. Oct. 27, 1868. 

Augusta Justine, b. Sept. 22, 1837 ; m. George Edwards, Sept., 1858 ; d. Dec. 

25, 1880. 
Ellen, b. 1841 ; m. John Squires, Sept., 1858; d. June 18, 1870. 

* For Ephraim Wooster's service in the War, see Records of Connecticut 
Men in the Revolution, pages 69, 481, 549, 550, 655. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 293 

Mrs. Lum outlived all her children and grandchildren, and was 
left with a niece as her nearest relative. A married daughter of this 
niece lived with Mrs. Lum in the house which she occupied without 
a break for eighty-one years. Until a short time before her death, 
when she fell and broke her hip, she was active, having full use 
of her bodily powers. Even after her accident she moved around 
the house with the aid of a crutch, and visited neighbors quite a 
distance away. She died September 3d, 1899, aged ninety-six years 
and eleven months. She was baptized by the Rev. Dr. Mansfield, 
whose pastorate in Derby and the adjoining towns extended over a 
period of seventy-two years ; she was confirmed by Bishop Brownell 
(the predecessor of Bishop Williams), in "Quaker Farms" church. 
Throughout her long life she has never left Connecticut nor even 
visited Ansonia, only three miles away ; but she went once to New 
Haven. Her faculties were remarkably well preserved to the last, 
and she took great interest in having the Cuban war news read to 
her daily. She was much delighted to be made a member of the 
Sarah Ludlow Chapter and to receive the souvenir spoon of the 
Society. She was admitted to the National Society, April 22d, 1898. 
Her National number is 23,676. 

Julia A. DuBois James. 

(MRS. THOMAS L. JAMES.) 

Allida Booth. 



ELIZA (WHEELER) BAILEY 

HEZEKIAH WHEELER— PATRIOT 




jEZEKIAH WHEELER was born April 30, 1762, at 
Stafford Springs, Conn., and died October 31, 1833, at 
Stow, Mass. He enlisted when fifteen years of age 
( 1777) and served most of tbe time until tbe close of 

the war ; first in the Continental army. Regiments of "Additional" 

Infantry (formation of 1777-1781 ) in 

Colonel Henry Sherburne's Regiment ( R. I.) 
Captain Elijah Blackman's Company ( Middletown.) ; 

afterwards in the "Connecticut Line" (formation 1781-83), Third 

Regiment 

Colonel Samuel B. Webb (Wethersfield) 
Captain Edward Bulkley (Wethersfield), 

where his name is found upon the pay roll of 1782.* He was in 
the army division much of the time over which Washington had 
personal command, and one of the incidents which he related to 
his children was of having held the General's horse while Washing- 
ton was conferring with his officers. Hezekiah Wheeler was in the 
campaign that suffered during the terrible winter at Valley Forge, 
where, while on picket duty, without shoes or stockings, he stood 
upon his hat to keep his bare feet from the snow and frozen ground. 
During the bitter experience of that winter two of his brothers were 
killed in battle, but the exact time or place is not known to the family. 
The following is from a letter received from the Bureau of 
Pensions : 

"Replying to your request for information concerning Hezekiah Wheeler, 
a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you are advised that he made application 
for a pension on April 9, 1818, at which time he was fifty-five years of age, and 
residing at Rowe, Mass., and his pension was allowed for five years' actual 
service as a private in the Connecticut troops. 

(Signed) H. Clay Evans, 

Commissioner." 
* See Conn. Hist. Coll., vol. viii, p. 101. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 295 

The pension was paid to him fifteen years, and after his death was 
continued to his widow for many years. 

The old flint-lock musket that he carried through the war was 
kept by his son Flavel for many years, but was lost when the family 
moved to Ohio, or still farther west. This son Flavel died unmar- 
ried, an aged man, in 1892. 

Hezekiah Wheeler married July 24, 1788, at Savoy, Mass., Meri- 

bah Bishop ( b. Jan. 24, 1771 ; d. April 16, i860). Their children 

were : 

Bradford, b. May 15. 1789. Joseph B., 1). Dec. 15, 1803. 

Meridah, b. March 15, 1791. Elijah Ward, b. Jan. 17, 1806. 

Josiah, b. Sept. 9, 1793. John Wesley, b. July 16, 1808; 

Twins b Dec 2 T7Q7- '• cL Dec 3> l 797l d. Aug. II, 1808. 

lwms, b. Dec. 2, 179/ , j d Dec 4< ];()7 j 0HN Wesley, b. Sept. 23, 1809. 

Alfred, b. Sept. 18, 1799. Gardner Flavel. b. June 24. 1812. 

Nancy, b. Aug. 24, 1801. Eliza Wheeler, b. Feb. 4, 1815. 

Eliza Wheeler was born in Coleraine, Franklin County, Mass., Feb- 
ruary 4, 1815. She was the youngest and last survivor of thirteen 
children. She married in Coleraine. Willard Bailey, who died many 
years ago. Their children were Elizabeth Bethany, born December 
1, 1833; Hezekiah Willard, born May 2, 1836; Wesley Flavel, 
born November 9, 1838; Eliza Florilla. born May 6. 1841 ; Cynthia 
Nancy, born October 20, 1844. 

The following is an extract from a newspaper printed at Milbank, 
South Dakota, January 19, 1899: "A Daughter of the Revolution 
Passes Away. Mrs. Eliza Bailey of this city, mother of our Towns- 
man H. W. Bailey, died a little after two o'clock a. m. on Tuesday. 
She would have been eighty-four years of age had she lived until 
Februarv 4th. Notwithstanding her advanced age, she had been in 
good health until about ten days prior to her death. The deceased 
was a daughter of the American Revolution. Her father, Hezekiah 
Wheeler, enlisted in the Revolutionary War when he was fifteen 
years of age, at Stafford Springs, Tolland Count}-, Connecticut, and 
served six years until its close. He died October 31, 1833. 

In October, 1898, Mrs. Bailey was formally admitted to member- 
ship in the Sarah Riggs Humphreys Chapter. Daughters of the 
American Revolution, at Derbv, Connecticut." 

Marx Louise Birdscyc. 
Evelyn Bailey Williams. 

(MRS. J. W. WILLIAMS.) 

Authority: Conn. Hist. Coll. Connecticut Men in the Revolution, pp. 22?. 
22,1. Bureau of Pensions. 



''That which should accompany old age 
As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends." 



"To the typical American woman . . great political questions are only 
an extension of the family interests and are almost as vividly felt." 

"We women are of all creatures the most personal and our interests work 
outward from home centers." 



Stbbtl 2>wtgbt IRent Chapter 



SUFFIELD 



Daughters of patriots 

ANNA HALE (RURNAP) PIERCE JOHN BURNAP 



MARY ELIZABETH (BURNS) 

WOODWORTH WILLIAM BURNS 




ANNA HALE (BURNAP) PIERCE. 

(From a photograph taken on her ninetieth birthday. The roses were a birthday gift from 
the Sibbil Dwight Kent Chapter.) 



ANNA HALE (BURNAP) PIERCE 

JOHN BURNAP— PATRIOT 




XXA HALE (BURNAP) PIERCE is said to be of 
Huguenot extraction, which implies that she had a 
godly and patriotic ancestry. She was born in the town 
of Windham, State of Vermont, October 29th, 1807. 
Her father, John Burnap, was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, 
April 23d, 1762, and was therefore a lad twelve years old when the 
famous "Tea Party" was held in Boston harbor. But he was old 
enough to become interested in the great struggle for American 
Independence, and as the weary war lengthened out, so, too, did 
the boy lengthen out, till finally before the fight was ended, he 
enlisted as a private, and served seven and a half months, a part of 
the time under 

Colonel Nathaniel Wade 
Captain Samuel Lamb. 

Afterward, removing to the then new country of Vermont, in 
the last years of the century, he held for two years a commission 
as "Sergeant Major" in the State Militia. His home was on a 
hilly farm in the more hilly town of Windham. 

John Burnap married on April 1. 1790, Candace Bliss. Their 
children were : 

Lucy, b. April 7, 1791 ; m. Joseph Wood. 

Joux L., b. Dec. 28, 1792; d. Jan. 16, 1876. 

Uzziah, 1). July ri, 1794. 

Asa, b. Feb. 22, 1796. 

Candace., 1). Oct. 30, 1797; d. Sept. 15, 1800. 

Ira, b. April 8, 1800; d. April 22, 1800. 

Orphar, b. Oct. 1, 1801 ; d. Oct. 2, 1801. 

Sophia, b. June 4, 1803; m. 1st, David Elliot Emery, 2d, James Stearns; d. 

Sept. 8, 1891. 
At USA, b. Mar. 5, 1805; m. James Stearns. 
Anna Hale, b. Oct. 29, 1807; m. March 17, 1830, Nathan Pierce; d. Jan. 

5. 1898. 
Gaxis, b. July 7, 1809. 



300 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

John Burnap, the patriot, died September i, 1812, in Windham, 
Vermont. His widow, Candace Burnap, when eighty-one years of 
age, made application for a pension, July 6, 1846, while she was 
residing in Townshend, Vermont, and a pension was granted her. 

Anna was five years old when her father died. She spent her 
childhood on the farm, was a gentle and affectionate child, fond of 




ANNA HALE (BURNAP) PIERCE. 
(When about sixty-five years old.) 



flowers, and made the animals of the farm her pets. Attending 
the district school, the handsome young " Schoolmaster," Nathan 
Pierce, soon formed an attachment for the young and bashful Anna, 
and on March 17th, 1830, she became his wife. The day after their 
marriage they went to the farm, which the young groom had pur- 
chased in West Townshend, Vermont, where they lived until some 
years after their "Golden Wedding." Their family consisted of 
three sons and four daughters. Their children were : 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 30 1 

Lucia Anna, b. Jan. 4, 1831 ; m. Jeremiah Baldwin; d. August 19, 1903. 

Marcia Latjrette, b. Nov. 19, 1832; m. Jonas C. Kendall. 

Charles Nathan, b. June 19, 1835; d. June 27, 1869. 

Albert Romanzo, b. Feb. 16, 1837; m. Eliza S. Phelps. 

James Edward, b. Aug. 12, 1S39; m. Frances Hall; d. July 15, 1870. 

Julia, b. June 10, 1841 ; m. Gardner S. Washburn. 

Mary Ella, b. Mar. 0, 1843; m. Willis II. Taft; d. April 19, 1888. 

In the Civil War they gave their second son to the service of his 
country, and he faithfully served four years. In the spring of 
1884, Mr. and Airs. Pierce removed to Suffield, Connecticut, with 
their son and his family, where they resided until the close of their 
lives, ever active and busy, interested in every good word and work, 
and deeply so in the welfare and prosperity of their country and 
in Christ's kingdom within it. 

Through the influence of her daughter-in-law,* Mrs. Pierce 
became a member of the Sibbil D wight Kent Chapter in 1896. 
Called to part with her husband on April 16th, 1897, she survived 
him, but a few months, being "called home" in the beginning of 
the New Year, January 5th, 1898. 

Ever patriotic and ever loyal to her country, first of all she 
endeavored to be faithful to her Christian vows, and we believe she 
has gone to receive the rew 7 ard awaiting those who trust not in 
ancestors, but whose character and lives stand the test of Chris- 
tian discipleship. 

Helen M. King. 

Authority: Department of the Interior. Bureau of Pensions, Washington, 
D. C. 

The photograph and biographical material for this sketch were furnished 
by Mr. and Mrs. Albert R. Pierce, SufHeld, Conn. 

*Mrs. Eliza S. Phelps Pierce. 



MARY ELIZABETH (BURNS) WOODWORTH 

WILLIAM BURNS— PATRIOT 




ARY ELIZABETH (BURNS) WOODWORTH was 
born in North Coventry, Conn., April 6, 1817. She was 
one of a family of seven children. 

Her father, William Burns, enlisted "for the war" 
when sixteen years of age, from Coventry, Conn., on March 15, 

1778, in 

The Connecticut Line, Eighth Regiment 

Lieut. -Col. Commandant — Isaac Sherman 

Captain Paul Brighanrs Company. 

This regiment wintered at Valley Forge in 1778, and on June 
28 was present at the battle of Monmouth. During the summer of 
1778 this regiment was in camp at White Plains and New York; 
wintered in 1779 at Reading; was engaged in the storming of 
Stony Point on July 15, 1779; and wintered in 1780 at Morristown, 
N. J. The summer of 1780 was passed with the main army on 
the banks of the Hudson River ; the following winter was spent at 
Camp "Connecticut Village." At this camp the regiments of the 
Connecticut Line were consolidated for a new formation which had 
been ordered by Congress. 

William Burns was badly wounded in the service. One hand 
was shot away, and two bullets, which he carried in one leg, made 
him a cripple for the remainder of his life.* His home was in 
North Coventry, Conn. He died in 1819 or 1820. 

His daughter, Mary Elizabeth Burns, came to Suffield about 1840, 
and married on September 18, 1842, Horace Woodworth. Rev. Dr. 
Ives of the Second Baptist Church performed the ceremony. Pre- 
vious to her marriage she was a nurse. At the close of her life 
Mrs. Woodworth became nearly blind, but retained her bright mind 
and memory. She lived on the banks of the Connecticut with her 
husband, in the family of her son, until she passed away on May 
2, 1898. Helen M. King. 

Authority: Connecticut Men in the Revolution, p. 229. 

* Under the law passed in 1818, William Burns drew a pension. 



The things I want to see are not Redhook Lists, and Court Calendars, and 
Parliamentary Registers, but the Life of Man in England : what men did, 
thought, suffered, enjoyed. 

Thomas Carlyle. 



Stamforb Chapter 



STAMFORD 



Daucibters of 

NANCY ANN (GIFFORD) WARREN 



patriots 
ELISHA GIFFORD 



LUCRETIA (HOLLY) TOWN 



JOHN HOLLY 






pi 




NANCY ANN (GIFFORD) WARREN. 




LUCRETIA (HOLLY) TOWN. 



NANCY ANN (GIFFORD) WARREN 

ELISHA GIFFORD— PATRIOT 



|y Li! 



HE Stamford Chapter has the honor of having- two "real" 
Daughters on its membership roll. Airs. Nancy Ann 
(Gifford) Warren was the first to become a member, 
and then we claimed her as the youngest of the coterie 
in our land, but we have been obliged to yield the palm to one in 
another Chapter in our State. 

Nancy Ann Gifford was born in the town of Southeast, Putnam 
County, New York. July 26, 1831. She is the oldest child of 
Elisha Gifford by his second wife, Polly Washburn, whose marriage 
took place when the respective ages of the bride and groom were 
twenty-nine and eighty-two years. Four children were born ta 
them as follows : 

Nancy Ann Clifford. 1>. July 26, 1831 ; m. Isaac Warren Dec. 4, T855, Kent. 

Putnam Co., N. Y. 
Elisha Gifford. b. ; m. Louisa J. Knapp; lie is a clergyman in 

Somerville, Mass. 
Van Rexssalaer Gifford, b, ; m. Alary A. Bennett. Residence, 

Northfield, Minn. 
Lodesca, b. ; unmarried ; d. . 

The ( rifford family traces its history back to the date 1066, having 
one coat-of-arms of this period, and another which belongs to the 
later English branch of the family. 

The first settler of this name was William Gifford, who is believed 
to have been in Stamford, Conn., on or before 1647. In 1650 he was 
a resident of Falmouth, Mass. The copy of a deed of land which 
he purchased from the Indians in 1673 in Falmouth (then called 
Succanessett) is still in the possession of the family. Stephen Gif- 
ford, another early settler of this name, born in 1641, was one of the 
first proprietors of Norwich, Conn. (1659). 



306 patriots' daughters of coxxecticut chapters 

The early Giffords were Quakers and suffered persecution in both 
Europe and America.* 

Elisha Gifford was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1749. When 
the Revolutionary War began, he was living in Fredericktown, then 
Dutchess (now Putnam) County, New York. It is said that he was 
at Bunker Hill, and it is known that he served three months, 
enlisting February, 1776, under 

Colonel Swartout 
Captain Ludington 

in New York City, where he was employed in the erection of the 
fortifications. The following is an exact copy of a letter (from the 
Commissioner of Pensions) containing the record of Elisha Gifford's 
service as a soldier in the Revolution, taken from the Rolls of the 
Pension Department : 

He was a Minute Man, and as such, served three months, from 
Feb. 1776, under Captain Ludington in New York City, in building 
batteries, in the command of Colonel Swartout. Afterwards, he was 
drafted, but on account of the dangerous sickness of his wife, he 
furnished Jonas Yeoman as a substitute. In 1776 or 1777 he was 
drafted for two months under 

Captain Elihu Barnum, 

and was on duty at Fort Constitution, opposite West Point, N. Y. 

On the alarm of the burning of Danbury, Conn, April 27, 1777, 
he turned out under 

Captain Hezekiah Mead 

for one week, but before he arrived there, the enemy had retreated 
to their shipping- at the mouth of the Housatonic River on Long 
Island Sound. On another alarm he served for ten days under the 
same captain at Fishkill and at Secret Oak in Dutchess and West- 
chester Counties, New York. 

In the fall of 1780 he served two months at Fishkill and at Goshen, 
in Orange County, N. Y., under 

Colonel Ferris 
Captain Lake. 

When, during the winter he was out one month with Captain 
Ludington near a fort close to New York, and had a skirmish with 

* From the Gifford Genealogy, 1626-1896. By Harry E. Gifford. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 307 

the enemy while securing provisions and forage which were brought 
to White Plains for the army, the weather was extremely cold. 

He also served one month each in two winters on guard on the 
road to Frederickton to prevent the depredations of the Tories on 
the inhabitants, they being unusually active in plundering and 
destroying property. 

(Signed) Green B. Raum, 

Commissioner. 

Washington, D. C, April 23, 1890. 

Mr. Gifford died June 3, 1837, aged eighty-nine years. His widow 
survived him about half a century, and drew a pension for many 
years. 

Mrs. Warren's* recollections of her father are very vague, as she 
was only six years old at the time of his death. Her younger 
brother. Van Renssalaer Gifford, of Northfield, Minn, has sought 
to ascertain whether there is any living son of a Revolutionary 
soldier younger than himself, and so far has failed to find any. He 
served in the Union Army in the Civil War and believes that he is 
the only son of a Revolutionary soldier who fought in 1861-65. 

Susan Brooks Miller. 

* Mrs. Nancy Ann (Gifford) Warren has three children, namely: 
Emma, b. April 19, 1856; m. L. Willard Jaycox, Dec. 5, 1878. 
Ella, b. Nov. 16, 1857; m. Mangham Huestis, Oct. 18, 1881. 
Albert F., b. Oct. 11, 1859; m. Delia Lockwood, Aug. 21, iS — . 



LUCRETIA (HOLLY) TOWN 

JOHN HOLLY— PATRIOT 





\a 



OHN HOLLY, founder of the Holly family in Stamford, 
was one of the most prominent of our early settlers. 
He was from the first employed in the almost constant 
service of either the town or the Colony. In 1647, ne 
was appointed Marshall for the settlement. He was later made 
Collector of Customs and excise here, which office he discharged to 
the acceptance of the General Court. He was repeatedly one of the 
selectmen of the town, and one of its representatives in the General 
Court." 

"In 1654 he was made Associate Judge with those worthies. Law 
and Bell, for the Court to be held at this plantation. After the union 
of New Haven with the Connecticut Colony, he was made Com- 
missioner with Law for Stamford, Greenwich, and Rye, and to 
assist in the executing of justice at the Fairfield County Court." * , 
John Holly, the Patriot, was born on December 28, 1760, in 
Darien, Conn. He enlisted as a private under 

Colonel H eman Swift 
Captain Titus Watson, 

and served six years. He applied for a pension, which was granted. f 
John Holly married Fanny Thompson. Their children were 
William, Rebecca, Nancy, Emeline; David S., born June 21, 1804 
married October 9, 1829, Nancy M. Hoyt ( who died June 25, 1864) 
he died August 2j, 1884; Lucretia, born May 6, 1809; died July 

30- I903- 

Lucretia Holly was born in Darien, Conn. Her father died 
July 10, 1824, when she was but fourteen years of age. She married 

:; Huntington's History of Stamford. 

t Connecticut Men in the Revolution, p. 634. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 309 

James Kerr, who died a few years after their marriage. They lived 
in New York City, where a (laughter was horn to them whom they 
called Sarah. When seventeen years old, Sarah married, June 27, 
1847, Thaddeus Reed of Five Mile River. She died (1854) at 
twenty-four years of age, leaving a son, James Reed (born about 
1850), who was brought up by his grandmother. He married Emily 
Slawson and had two daughters, Mary and Sarah Florence. Mary 
married Mr. Lawrence. Sarah Florence married June 14, 1895, 
Frank Bradley, and their child Gladys (born in Danbury, Conn.) 
is Mrs. Town's great-great-grandchild, whom Mrs. Town lived to 
enjoy for several years. 

Lucretia Holly Kerr married second, Benjamin Town on June 
30, 1842. He was born August 26, T798, and died at their home 
on Davenport Ridge, Stamford, May 18, 1875, aged seventy-six 
years and eight months. After her husband's death Mrs. Town 
sold her place and came in 1889 to Darien, where she lived an 
active life, enjoying good health and her friends, and interested 
in her home and country until her death on July 30, 1903, aged 
ninety-six. 

Mrs. Town was among the latest admissions to the National 
Society. Her number is 40,208. 

Sylvia St. John. 

Susan Brooks Miller. 



(Upper first row > 
Almira Foster — Bedotha Pierpont (Button) Curtis 

Abigail Ann (Atwater) Bradley — Caroline (Brockway) Pratt 
(Upper center row) 
Martha (Abell) Rich— Anne Duryee (Phillips) Lee— Esther (Robbins) Tyler 




(Extreme left and right) 
Ann (Tyler) Beaumont Mabel (Cooley) Hobart 

(Lower center row) 
Nancy (Cloes) Raj — Rebecca Osborn— Eliz. Lansing (McAlpine) Finch 

i Low est outside row) 

Phebe (Rockwell) Gainford Electa A. (Manchester) VanVleck 

Maria (Ives) Parker 

Deha Clark (Murdock) Dowd Maria (Bronson) Bradley 



Susan Cardngton Clarke Chapter 



©aiuibtcis 



of 



ANNE DURYEE (PHILLIPS) LEE 

BEDOTHA P1ERPONT (BUTTON) 

CURTIS 

ELECTA A. (MANCHESTER) 

VAN VLECK 
ALM1RA FOSTER 

MARTHA (ABELL) RICH 
ESTHER (ROBBINS) TYLER 



ABIGAIL ANN (ATWATER) BRADLEY 

MARIA (BRONSON) BRADLEY 
PHOEBE (ROCKWELL) GAINFORD 
MARIA (IVES) PARKER 
MABEL (COOLEY) HOBART 
ELIZABETH LANSING (McALPlNE) 

FINCH 
CAROLINE (BROCKWAY) PRATT 



DELIA CLARK (MURDOCK) DOWD 



REBECCA OSBORN 

ANN (TYLER) BEAUMONT 

NANCY (CLOES) RAY 



patriots 

THOMPSON PHILLIPS 
— Lieutenant 

NEWBURY BUTTON 

— Fifer 

JOSEPH MANCHESTER 
ABEL FOSTER 

j ELIJAH ABELL 
| ABEL ABELL 

EBENEZER ROBBINS 

ABRAHAM ATWATER 
ISAAC ATWATER 
SAMUEL ATWATER 

— Drummer 
JOSEPH BRONSON 
JABEZ ROCKWELL 
ICHABOD IVES 
GEORGE COOLEY 

JOHN MCALPINE 
JOHN BROCKWAY 

— Sergeant 
JOHN MURDOCK 
WILLIAM MURDOCK 
PETER MURDOCK 

— Cabin Boy 
JOHN OSBORN 

— Captain 
ETHAN OSBORN 
ELIADA OSBORN 
JOHN TYLER 
CHARLES CLOES 




PALACE OF FIELD MARSHALS — COUNT VOX Mol.TKE AND COUNT VON WALDERSEE, 

BERLIN, GERMANY. 
(The home of Mrs. Anne Duryee (Phillips) Lee.) 




WINTER SCENE AT THE HOME OF MRS. ANNE DURYEE ( PHILLIPS) EEE. HEREIN. 
(The Emperor and Empress of Germany in the sleigh, Count von Waldersee standing near.) 



ANNE DURYEE (PHILLIPS) LEE 

THOMPSON PHILLIPS— PATRIOT 




XXE DURYEE PHILLIPS, the great granddaughter of 
Governor Saltonstall, and daughter of Lieutenant 
Thompson Phillips, and his wife (Abby Mumford) was 
born in Middletown, Connecticut, August 5, 1803. 
When three years of age she lost her father who was second lieu- 
tenant on the Oliver Cromwell, the first man-of-war sent out by 
Connecticut during the Revolution. 

Much of her girlhood was spent (together with her only sister, 
Abby) with her uncle, William Gushing, Judge of the Supreme 
Court, and her aunt, Hannah Cushing (born Phillips), at their 
home in Scituate, near Boston. 

In 1826, she married Air. David Lee, a highly respected merchant 
of New York, and had a family of six children. Three years after 
the death of her husband, which occurred in 1853, Mrs. Lee* went 
to Europe to visit her daughter, Josephine, who had married the 
Baron de Waechter-Lautenbach, Minister from Wurtemburg, at the 
French Court, as well as an elder daughter who had married Captain 
A. C. Murray of the Royal Navy, in her parents' house in New 
York. In 1866, she went to America with her youngest daughter, 
the widowed Princess de Noer, for two years, leaving her native 
land again in 1868 for the last time. 

On the breaking out of the French-German war of 1870, she went 
to Stuttgart to live with her daughter. Baroness de Waechter-Laut- 
enbach, whose husband had been appointed Minister of foreign 
affairs of Wurtemberg. In 1874, she went to Hanover, to her 
daughter, Mary, Countess de Waldersee, with whom she lived the 
rest of her life, passing the summer months with her daughter, 
Josephine, on her estate in the valley of the Xeckar. 

* The central portrait in the group illustration is of Mrs. Anne Duryee 
(Phillips) Lee. It is from a photograph taken when Mrs. Lee was about sixty 
years old. 




GENERAL FIELD MARSHAL COUNT VON WALDERSEE AND HIS WIFE MARY, COUNTESS 
VON WALDERSEE, DAUGHTER OF MRS. ANNE DURYEE (PHILLIPS) LEE, GRAND- 
DAUGHTER OF LIEUTENANT THOMPSON PHILLIPS, PATRIOT. 



(From a German postal card printed when Count von Waldersee was in China, 
addressed to Maj. Gen'l Adna R. Chaffee, Philippine Islands.) 



-igoi, and 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN" REVOLUTION. 315 

Airs. Lee was a woman of marked individuality, with a fine mind 
and with great personal attraction. She made many friends among* 
the distinguished people she met at her daughters' houses, notably 
Field Marshal Count von Moltke and Mr. Kasson and Mr. Phelps, 
who were successive Ministers from the United States to Berlin. 
With the two latter she continued in correspondence. Her many 
letters to relatives were greatly appreciated, as she truly possessed 
"the pen of the ready writer." 

Her warm heart made her universally beloved, and during her 
long life she was ever ready to alleviate the wants and sufferings 
of those around her. 

Mrs. Lee died in Hanover, on March 30, 1899, in her ninety-sixth 
year, at the home of her son-in-law, Field Marshal Count Walder- 
see and her daughter Mary, of which she was the loved centre. She 
died firmly believing in her Redeemer, in whom, she repeatedly said, 
she put all her trust. 

(Signed) Mary, Countess von U'aldersee. 




DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT. 

To-day, soon after 12 o'clock noon in her 96th year, died our beloved mother, mother-in-law, 
grandmother and greatgrandmother, Mrs. A. D. Lee, Hannover, 30 March 1899. 

Names of the bereft: Josephine Baroness von Waechter-Lautenbach, Mary Countess Walder- 
see, Alfred Count Waldersee* Commanding General of the Cavalry. 



BEDOTHA PIERPONT (BUTTON) CURTIS 

NEWBURY BUTTON— PATRIOT 






X 1810, sixth month, ninth day, in the village of North 
Haven, Connecticut, little Bedotha came into the house- 
hold of Newbury and Bedotha (Pierpont) Button. The 
baby received royal welcome from seven sisters and a 
brother already in the cosy home. When "Pedy," as she was nick- 
named, was fourteen years old she lived near the 1 lattery in New 
York, and saw the return to America of Marquis de Lafayette. The 
Button children were especially interested in the distinguished 
Frenchman's visit, for was not their father a Revolutionary veteran 
and did he not tell numberless tales of the brave officer who sacri- 
ficed home and fortune for the cause of freedom? Newbury, born 
March 25, 1766, at Stonington, was fifer in a company which left 
that town, and when going into action his uncle frequently seated 
the young musician upon his shoulders, grasped the lad's feet and 
thus made the shrill fifing heard clearly all along the line. The 
children never wearied of hearing father tell stories of his army life, 
and often acted the scenes in their play. "Bedy" represented father 
and blew lustily upon a willow whistle as Edward bore her aloft 
at the head of a valiant band, charging upon the enemy, the neigh- 
bor's children. 

( )ccupying a sightly position on a fence near Castle Garden, all 
the Buttons watched the Cadmus come up the Pay and discharge her 
distinguished passengers 'mid the din of cannon, musketry and 
shouts, inspiring to hear and impossible to forget. The loyal little 
folk participated enthusiastically in the demonstration. Each girl 
wore a white dress trimmed with red or blue ribbons and waved 
vigorously a blue bordered silk handkerchief stamped "Welcome 
Lafayette, the Nation's Guest." The boy of the party exercised his 
arms with a flag evolved by mother from a red striped kerchiet 
starred with blue homespun. Every hand waved a kindly greeting 
and each throat added volume to the welcoming cheers which peeled 
forth as the procession of statesmen, soldiers and merchants ( the 
last seizing a golden opportunity to advertise) marched up Broad- 






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PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



way to the City Hall. The quiet bearing and thin, dark coun- 
tenance of the "Nation's Guest" was disappointing to the young 
folk. "Bedy" expected the Marquis to wear a crown, and all agreed 
he was an ordinary looking man to create such excitement. Despite 
their criticisms they would see all, and loud was their grief to find 
the City Hall barred against children. Gathering the newspapers 
thrown from the printer's wagons, the little Buttons trooped home- 
ward, and the wonderful day was over. 

Some years later, Mr. Button and family returned to North 
Haven, where he died December 18, 1843. The children married 




KKS1DENCE OF MRS. LEMUEL J. CURTIS (BEDOTHA PIERPONT BUTTON), MERIDEN. 

and went their different ways. Bedotha married Lemuel J. Curtis, 
December 23, 1835. They lived in Meriden, where, 1852, he was one 
of the founders of the Meriden Britannia Company. Two daugh- 
ters were born, Celia, who never married, and Adelaide, wife of John 
Parker. Christmas Eve, 1885, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis celebrated their 
golden wedding, having among their guests four of the first wedding 
party. 

June 28, 1884, Bishop Williams, of the diocese of Connecticut, 
dedicated the Curtis Home, "for the relief of orphan children and 
aged women," built and endowed with about half a million of dollars 
by Mr. and Mrs. Curtis. 

Mrs. Curtis outlived husband and children, dying October 
15, 1899, 



ELECTA A. (MANCHESTER) VAN VLECK 

JOSEPH MANCHESTER— PATRIOT 




LECTA A., second daughter and third child of Joseph 
and Hannah (Tabor) Manchester, was born August 
29, 1809, at Madison, Madison County, New York. 
The bright, pretty girl led her suitors a merry chase 
until Leander Simmons of Hamilton came, saw, conquered and 
married her August 16, 1832. Two little ones came to this happy 
home, the elder dying soon after birth and the second, a baby 
when she lost her father, March 1, 1837. Fifteen years later Mrs. 
Simmons married Doctor Volkert H. Van Vleck of Hamilton and 
moved to Newfield, New Jersey. Doctor Van Vleck dying in 1879, 
his widow went to Davenport, Iowa, to live with her only child, Mrs. 
Charles S. Durfee. Here Mrs. Van Vleck died, March 25, 1899. 

Her father, Joseph Manchester, enlisted in the Continental Army 
at North Kingston, Rhode Island, and served through the war with- 
out a furlough. He was in the regiments of Colonels Rich, Fry 
and Bowen. 

Colonel Bowen was particularly friendly and gave Manchester 
a Bible which he carried through the entire campaign. 

Mrs. Van Vleck had her father's army drinking cup, and often 
told of his sufferings during the terrible winter at Valley Forge, of 
his marching with bare feet through the snow and of the long fight 
at Monmouth under the scorching sun. Captain Manchester said 
that many a poor fellow, escaping the British bullets on Monmouth 
field, died from immoderate drinking of cold water. 

The Captain was present when Washington signed the death 
warrant of Major Andre and noticed that the general was greatly 
affected, his hand trembling as he wrote his name. 

August, 1832, Captain Manchester moved to Coventry, Rhode 
Island, and there applied for a pension, which he drew till his death. 
January 8, 1841. The pension was received by his widow until her 
death at Coventry, June 27, 1859. 




abel Foster's camp chest (dark red). 

Used by him during the Revolutionary War.) 



ALMIRA FOSTER 

ABEL FOSTER— PATRIOT 




BEL FOSTER, a Revolutionary veteran, born July 9, 
1752, at Townsend, Massachusetts, came to Mount 
Holly, Vermont, in 1805. Making a clearing and build- 
ing a log house, he brought his family (wife and ten chil- 
dren), in March, 1806, to the new home on the summit of the Green 
Mountains. Almira, the youngest, was born in Townsend, Septem- 
ber 10, 1805. In the family circle, gathered about the blazing 
kitchen fire, she heard much to stir the blood and make her young 
heart beat fast. Here, father depicted the confusion and excitement 
of his march on the alarm, April 19, 1775; fought again the battle 
of Bunker Hill, where, at his side, mother's boyish brother, Ben- 
jamin Wood, fell; showed the children his cartridge box used at the 
battle of Saratoga, his wallet carried on the long Virginia marches, 
and described the privations at Valley Forge. Then, as he replaced 
the precious army souvenirs in the little camp chest, used during 
the war, father told how he shook hands with George Washington 
and frequently heard the great general praying at Valley Forge. 

Abel Foster trained his children in the home industries of that 
day, sent them to school for six months each year, and furnished 
them with such literature as "The Life of Joseph," "Beauties of 
the Bible," Increase Mather's "Heaven's Alarm to the World," 
"The Approaching Judgments of God upon the Roman Empire" 
and "Pilgrim's Progress." 

During the War of 181 2 two sons, Larned and Benjamin, went 
to the defense of Plattsburg, their sympathies aroused by a letter 
from a relative near Canada. When twenty-seven years of age, 
Almira went to Lowell, Massachusetts, to work in the cotton mills, 
and for four happy years was of that band of girls described by 
Charles Dickens in "American Notes" where he praised the high 



322 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

character of " 'The Lowell Offering,' a Repository of original 
articles written by females actively employed in the mills." Lucy 
Larcom was editor of this magazine. 

After Abel Foster's death, February 21, 1836, Almira returned to 
her mother at Alt. Holly. The wife of Abel Foster was Mary 
Wood, born at Billerica, Massachusetts, August, 1762, married April 
29, 1783, and died December 13, 1862, living through the American 
and French Revolutions and knitting stockings for the soldiers of 
1776 and 1862. 

When Mrs. Foster died Almira devoted herself to an invalid 
sister, whose death released the loving nurse from forty years of 
continuous service. 

In 1876, Miss Foster moved to a brother's home in Cuttingsville, 
Vermont, where, December 5, 1900, this Patriot's Daughter fell 
asleep full of years and good works. 




abel Foster's leather cartridge box (used by him during the revolution). 

The illustrations in this sketch are from pen and ink drawings furnished 
by Mrs. Helen M. Crowley, Cuttingsville, Vermont. 



MARTHA (ABELL) RICH 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILY— ABELL 




AM talking to a man of sense," replied Abel Abell when 
asked why he frequently talked to himself. He was a 
man of sense, shrewd in business and fervent in spirit. 
Born September 14, 1757, at Norwich, Connecticut, the 
round-faced, blue-eyed fellow enlisted April 7, 1777, in Captain 
Robert Warner's Company, Third Regiment, under Colonel Wyllys. 
The unfortunate soldier was imprisoned on the British ship Jersey, 
anchored near Brooklyn, and compelled to work dragging- a cannon 
ball chained to his ankle. The prisoners were closely packed into 
the ship, and given stagnant water, wormy, mouldy bread and 
tainted meat. Mr. Abell said even a nubbin of corn or a raw squash 
would have been a delicacy. "The morning of our release," he 
added, "soup was made for all the departing prisoners, and not 
one poor fellow who ate of it escaped death." 

Abel Abell's brother Elijah, born October 18, 1755, took part in 
the Point Judith expedition. He never married, and died Septem- 
ber 14, 1842. 

Soon after the war Abel Abell married Lucy, daughter of Daniel 
Hubbard, and they had eight children, Daniel, Jabez, Alice, Asahel. 
Robert, Elijah, Isaac and Abel. Mrs. Abell died, and April 28, 
1805, he married Jemima, daughter of Ozias Brainerd. Three 
more children were born, Martha, Amiel and Jabez Lathrop. Mr. 
Abell made carts and cart wheels, and when his father-in-law moved 
to Ohio from Chatham he built thirteen covered wagons for the 
journey. Eleven children meant hard work for a father even in 
those primitive davs, and Mr. Abell built a saw and grist mill which 
was patronized by all the countryside because of his superior process 
for grinding corn. 

Several years after the Revolution the old soldier received a 
pension of eight dollars per month. 



324 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

March 14, 1841, this hero died and now rests beside his brother, 
Elijah, in Young Street Cemetery, Chatham. 

Martha Abell, born at Chatham May 1, 1806, married Amos Rich, 
April 10, 1822. Few modern damsels sixteen years old are com- 
petent to take charge of a household, but Martha, youngest daughter 
of a large family, could cook, brew, spin, weave and sew. For 
many years she made all the clothing for her husband and ten 
children, spinning and weaving days and sewing evenings by home- 
made tallow dips. 

At the outbreak of the Civil War Mrs. Rich sent four sons and 
two sons-in-law to the front. Bernice, born December 24, 1823, 
enlisted August 7, 1862. in Company H, 21st Regiment, and died 
January 4, 1863, at Falmouth, Virginia. Leander, her youngest 
child, born January 14, 1846, enlisted August 6, 1862, for three 
years in the same company and regiment. He had measles, took 
cold sleeping on the ground through a rain, was discharged Novem- 
ber 29, 1863, for disability and died of consumption, September 
22, 1865. Denison, born August 28, 1830, enlisted for nine months, 
August 21, 1862, in Company C, 24th Regiment; was promoted to 
Corporal and served thirteen months. Lorenzo Dow, born May 
30, 1840, enlisted September 9, 1862, for nine months in the same 
company and regiment as Denison. They were mustered out 
together, September 30, 1863. 

The other children of Amos and Martha Rich were Robert, 
Emeline, Elizabeth, Marietta, Anna Abell and Herman. 

Great-grandmother to forty children, grandmother to thirty 
grandchildren, survivor of husband and five of ten sons and daugh- 
ters, Mrs. Rich died May 22, 1902, at East Hampton, Connecticut. 



ESTHER (ROBBINS) TYLER 

EBENEZER ROBBINS— PATRIOT 




BENEZER ROBBINS, born 1758, at Hampton, Con- 
necticut, enlisted in Captain Thomas Dyer's Company, 
Colonel John Durkee's Regiment, and served one year. 
Mr. Robbins was the father of eight children, four 
(William A., Mary, Nelson and Edwin) by his first wife, married 
in 1804: Rufus, Esther, Mary J. and Ebenezer, Jr., children of the 
second wife, Zeruah Carpenter, who was born July 13, 1787, at 
Wellington and married in 18 18. 

June 6, 1818, Eben- 
ezer Robbins was living 
at Ashford, Connecti- 
cut, and applied for a 
pension. October 6, 
1849, he died at West- 
ford, a parish of Ash- 
ford. and his widow 
received his pension 
until her death at Will- 
ington. July 30, 1855. 

Of the eight chil- 
dren* but one survives. 
Esther, born May 20, 

1820, at Westford, married George Tyler, born March 19, 1810, 
in Westford, and moved to Union City, Michigan, where her hus- 
band died, February 5, 1882. 

Mrs. Tyler is well and writes in a recent letter, "I well remember 
sitting in the chimney corner at my father's feet, listening to his 
recitals of the long wearisome marches and his thrilling experiences 
at the battle of Trenton." 'The only keepsake I have of my father 
is a pair of silver sleeve buttons." 

* Another daughter of Patriot Ebenezer Robbins became an honorary mem- 
ber of the Katharine Gaylord Chapter, Bristol, Connecticut. See pp. 155-160. 




REVOLUTIONARY SLEEVE BUTTONS USED AND 
OWNED BY EBENEZER ROBBINS. 




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ABIGAIL ANN (ATWATER) BRADLEY. 



ABIGAIL ANN (ATWATER) BRADLEY 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILY— ATWATER 




T the outbreak of the Revolution, Abraham Atwater and 
his son Isaac shouldered muskets and enlisted, leaving 
Timothy and Samuel to protect their mother and sisters. 
But in those days few boys staid contentedly at home, 
and one June day, watching a new regiment come into camp, Abra- 
ham Atwater was surprised to see his nineteen-year-old son Samuel 
acting as drummer. 

Enlisting in Captain Bunnell's Company from Wallingford under 
Colonel Douglas, Fifth Battalion Wadsworth's Brigade, raised June, 
1776, to re-enforce Washington, the lad served on the Brooklyn 
front, August 27, 1776, at the battle of Long Island. In the defense 
of New York, September 15, his company was with Colonel Douglas 
at Kip's Bay, 34th Street, and during the hasty retreat of the Ameri- 
cans his brother Isaac was killed. The young drummer was also a 
participant at the battle of White Plains. 

When Abraham Atwater married Mary Ball, in 1738, he built 
the house still standing in Cheshire, Connecticut (then a parish of 
Wallingford), upon land purchased of his grandfather, Jonathan 
Atwater. This farm has descended from father to son for six gen- 
erations. Here Abraham Atwater died January 4, 1786, and here 
December 6, 1781, Samuel Atwater married Patience Peck and 
became father of ten children, a son, Flamen, and nine daughters. 
January 12, 1848, Samuel Atwater died in the room where, ninety- 
one years before, he drew his first breath. 

Abigail Ann, his eighth child, born October 17, 1800, married in 
her nineteenth year Levi Bradley, and settled on a farm adjoining 
her birthplace, where she trained a family of five children ; Emeline, 
who married Alfred Curtis; Samuel, married Abigail Doolittle; 
William L., married Frances Coe; Nathaniel L., married Harriet 
Peck, and Abby, who married Walter Hubbard. 



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PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



A woman of remarkable vigor, mentally and physically, Mrs. Brad- 
ley lived to be over ninety-six years of age, and when she died, May 
5, 1897, at Meriden, she had been a widow twenty years and had 
survived four of her five children. 




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THE ATWATER HOMESTEAD, CHESHIRE. 
cut for this illustration was kindly loaned by the Meriden Journal Publishing Company.) 



MARIA (BRONSON) BRADLEY 

JOSEPH BRONSON— PATRIOT 




RAXDFATHER was a thickset, round-faced man of mild 
disposition, exceedingly fond of, and indulgent to, his 
family," writes a granddaughter of Joseph Bronson, 
a Revolutionary pensioner of Waterbury, Connecticut. 
She further says, "Twice a year, grandfather drove from Water- 
bury to Hartford for his pension, taking two days for the journey, 
always a joyous one for the grandchild privileged to accompany him." 
What cracking of jokes, feasts of cookies and apples from grand- 
mother's bountiful lunch basket ; what exciting tales of the war in 
which grandfather fought for two and one half years ! Then on 
the return how the old soldier's mind dwelt upon bygone days when 
he enlisted as color-bearer, March, 1777, in Captain William Judd's 
Company, Colonel Samuel Wyllys' Regiment! His grandchild 
never forgot the picture of Yorktown battlefield and the surrender 
of Lord Cornwallis. 

Joseph Bronson, born in Waterbury March, 1756, married Decem- 
ber 23, 1784, Hannah, daughter of an eminent English surgeon. 
Preserved Porter of Waterbury, a Royalist and Churchman. Han- 
nah, born 1765, in Waterbury, inherited her father's strong charac- 
ter, and, despite public opinion, trained her eleven children accord- 
ing to the tenets of the Church of England. Nevertheless, in 1812, 
the eldest son espoused the cause of his native land, and one stormy 
night, on guard, took a cold which carried him to his grave. 

Mr. Bronson lived at Sharon while employed on a government 
contract, also at Rodman, New York, where April 11, 1818, he 
applied for a pension. 

But the homestead was in Scrub Oak District, a mile from Water- 
bury. Here, October 19, 1807, was born Maria, his youngest child. 
In 1830 she married William F. Bradley of Woodbridge, and their 
daughter Jennie married Sidney M. Clark of West Haven. Mrs. 
Bradley lost her mother in 1839 and her father in 1852. Both 
parents are buried in the old cemetery which is now the site of the 
Bronson Library. Since Mr. Bradley's death his wife's home is in 
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HE beautiful Ridgebury hills of Connecticut charm the 
historian with their traditions of the camp of Rocham- 
beau's army, conferences of Revolutionary generals 
and British skirmishes. Amid these surroundings Jabez 
Rockwell was born October 3, 1761, and breathing such patriotic 
air, it is not surprising that he was but fourteen years old when he 
enlisted, May 6, 1775, in the company raised in Ridgebury parish, 
Ridgefield, by Captain Ichabod Doolittle. For five years he served 
continuously under Generals Washington, Lafayette, Wayne, Put- 
nam and Benedict Arnold. February 16, 1777, he enlisted in Cap- 
tain Vine Elderkin's Company and the following spring went into 
the field at Camp Peekskill under General Arnold. The young 
soldier was wounded at Saratoga, and when, in after years, that 
battle or the treachery of Arnold was mentioned, would say, "But 
remember his gallantry at Saratoga." 

The Seventh Connecticut Regiment was ordered to Pennsyl- 
vania, joining Washington's army in time to participate in the battle 
of Germantown. While encamped at Valley Forge, enduring pri- 
vations which he said were never adequately described, young 
Rockwell and thirty other soldiers lost their powder horns. Five 
cattle had been butchered for camp rations and there was great 
strife over the distribution of the horns. One day General Wash- 
ington was asked to decide the important question, so writing upon 
a paper the General said, "This number is between 1500 and 2000. 
The ten soldiers making nearest guesses receive horns." The 
numerals were 1776, correctly guessed by one; four others, one of 
them Jabez, guessed 1750. Rockwell scraped, polished and marked 
his horn in obedience to the order requiring the owner's name upon 
each horn that no confusion arise when replenished at the powder 




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PHOEBE (ROCKWELL) GAINFORD. 
(Now living (1904) and in her one hundredth year.) 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. S3S 

wagon. The inscription reads, "Jabez Rockwell of Ridgebury, 
Conn. His Horn made in camp at Valley Forge, first used at Mon- 
mouth June 28, 1778." 

One morning, after breakfast of roasted potatoes and hickory nuts, 
Jabez was sentinel at headquarters, where Washington noticed him 
and inquired about his fare. The boy's replies sent the General 
to his tent for a day's supply of bread and meat for his young guard. 
Twice Rockwell helped row the boat with Washington and his 
officers across the frozen Schuylkill River. The second night, the 
crossing was especially perilous, and hands as well as oars were 
necessary to keep the ice from crushing the craft. The General 
betrayed no fear but constantly encouraged the oarsmen. 

Although wounded at Monmouth, Rockwell was able to be with 
his regiment at White Plains and was among one hundred and 
twelve selected to join the force of General Wayne for the storming 
of Stony Point, captured at midnight July 15, 1779. Wayne went 
among his soldiers, bidding them remember the good times "after 
we gain independence." 

"Victory is certain" was his confident reply to doubters. Jabez 
Rockwell, praising the bravery of his captain, said, "Vine Elderkin 
was not an officer lagging behind, calling 'Go on, boys !' No, always 
leading and shouting, 'Come on, boys !* " 

At Stony Point, the general command given, Elderkin called at 
the top of his voice to his company, "Now boys, give 'em the 
bayonet! Remember Paoli !" and the charge followed. Corn- 
w r allis" surrender at Yorktown finished Rockwell's military career. 
Returning home, he fell captive to the fascinations of pretty Sarah 
Rundel, remembering that when he marched through Danbury she 
gave him a cup of water. July 4, 1785, they married. Twelve years 
passed, seven children were born, and hearing of the fertile lands 
in Pennsylvania, they emigrated to Milford, Pike County. Here, 
May 24, 1798, Mrs. Rockw r ell died, and September, 1799, her 
widower married seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Mulford, and seven 
more little brothers and sisters were added to the family. For forty 
years the old soldier made Milford his home, then, 1837, moved to 
Honesdale, Wayne County, declaring that the county's designation 
made the change desirable, the name being in honor of "Mad 



334 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Anthony" in whose division Rockwell fought at Monmouth. In 
that battle he said "Washington, Lafayette and Wayne had Divine 
protection and bore charmed lives." 

When General Lafayette made his triumphal tour in America, 
four Revolutionary veterans, Jabez Rockwell, Thomas Gay, Joshua 
Hutchins and Samuel Whitehead, walked seventy-two miles to New 
York from Pennsylvania. The second day, fatigued and travel- 
stained, the old men reached Lafayette's hotel and asked for their 
former commander. They were repulsed, and were told that New 
York's mayor and the Congressional Committee were with the 
Marquis. The rebuff aroused Rockwell's warlike spirit ; striding 
up to the hotel clerk, he thundered, "Young man, we have traveled 
on foot two days to see General Lafayette. We fought under him 
before you were born ; we are now under the same roof with him 
and, if necessary, ready to fight again to see him." The clerk 
sent up their names to the General, who asked Mr. Clay to summon 
them. The great Frenchman was cordial, according them an inter- 
view which sent them home rejoicing. 

Twenty years after, Henry Clay ran for President and Jabez 
Rockwell, a lifelong Democrat, cast his last presidential vote for 
the man courteous to old soldiers. 

January 17, 1847, Mr. Rockwell died at Honesdale and was buried 
with military honors in the Methodist cemetery. "The Honesdale 
< ruards" and a delegation from the Masonic Lodge escorted the 
remains to their final resting place. All along the way was heard 
the beat of the drum and the shrill notes of the fife playing the 
old soldier's favorite, "The Masonic Adieu." Every Memorial Day 
his grave, the only Revolutionary soldier's grave in Honesdale, is 
decorated by the G. A. R. 

Phebe Rockwell, born June 30, 1805, married John Kimble, and 
after his death William L. Gainford. Five of her eight children 
are living. Mrs. Gainford and her sister, Mrs. Lucinda Valentine, 
live together at Matamoras, Pennsylvania. Hale and hearty in 
spite of ninety-nine summers, Mrs. Gainford gives every promise of 
passing the century mark. 

The cut of the powder horn used in this sketch was kindly loaned hy Mrs. 
William J. Milligan of Philadelphia. 



MARIA (IVES) PARKER 

ICHABOD IVES— PATRIOT 




CHABOD IVES, born in Bristol, Connecticut, August 14, 
1759, was of sturdy Puritan stock, and the training of 
his boyhood on his father's farm increased his natural 
self-reliance. December, 1775, he joined Captain Isaac 
Cook's Company for three months, and May, 1776, enlisted in 
Captain Brockett's Company, 5th Battalion Wadsworth's Brigade, 
and served for seven months. The following May he was in Cap- 
tain Joseph Peck's Company, Colonel Roger Eno's Regiment. He 
joined Captain Johnson's Company, Colonel Hooker's Regiment 
and marched the 18th of April, 1780, but was discharged March 
22, 1 78 1, only to join Captain Edward's Company, Colonel Ship- 
man's Regiment, for a year's campaign. In 1782 he was for two 
months in Captain Amos Hotchkiss' Company. Returning to Wal- 
lingford for a well-earned rest, Ichabod married Molly Clark. The 
following July his country's call seemed imperative, and he became 
a member of Captain Fitch's Company, General Waterbury's State 
Brigade. In September his company was at West Point with 
Colonel Canfield's Regiment. He participated in the battles of 
Harlem, White Plains and Throgg's Point. A son, Isaac, greeted 
the young soldier at his home-coming. 

Nine other little ones came into the household : Laura. Betsy, 
Lodemy, Miles, Julia, Polly, Charlotte and twins, Mary and Maria. 
born December 5, 1802. Five months after the birth of the twins, 
Isaac, the first born, was lost at sea. Eight of the ten children lived 
to marry. 

Maria married James Parker of Cheshire, February 8, 1824. 
Two years after, January 9, 1826, her mother died, and in 1832 her 
father applied for a pension which furnished him every comfort 
until his death at Wallingford, February 25, 1845. 

The mother of eleven children, all but one living to maturity, and 
nine married, Mrs. Parker survived her husband and died at Cheshire 
August 21, 1897, in her ninety-second year. 




MABEL (COOLEY) HOBART AND HER GREAT-GRANDCHILD. 



MABEL (COOLEY) HOBART 

GEORGE COOLEY— PATRIOT 




HERE the Springfield Park now spreads lawns for the 
pleasure of the city's little ones, about a hundred years 
ago, the seven Cooley children romped in the hayfields, 
not dreaming of the distinction in store for the old farm. 
Their father, George Cooley, native of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, 
served three years in the Revolution, part of the time in Captain 
John Hobby's Company, Colonel Greaton's Massachusetts Regiment. 
Honorably discharged from the army, like Ulysses, George turned 
his footsteps homeward to find Penelope, faithful and spinning 
golden dreams with the linen threads of her bridal "setting out." 

Penelope Rumsill became Penelope Cooley, and the young couple 
established their household on a Springfield farm. Health failing, 
■ Mr. Cooley applied for a pension April n, 1818, which was granted 
his widow after his death, December 13, 1819. 

Aided on the farm by her sturdy boys, Mrs. Cooley brought up 
her family and saw five children married. Mabel, born February 
19, 181 1, married David Plobart September 28, 1830, at Enfield, 
Connecticut, and moved to Meriden, where Mr. Hobart died, Decem- 
ber 31, 1880. 

The mother of three children, eight grandchildren and six great- 
grandchildren, Mrs. Hobart lived on Hobart Street, named in honor 
of her husband, until her death, June 17, 1904. 



ELIZABETH LANSING (McALPINE) FINCH 

JOHN MCALPINE— PATRIOT 




HE patronymic of Mrs. Finch is derived from the Alpine 
Hills of Scotland ; her family crest is a boar's head ; 
the clan war cry "Cuimhuich has Ailpein" (Remember 
the death of Alpine) and the clan badge "Ginthas" 
(Pine Tree). Despite his fierce highland ancestry, Mrs. Finch's 
grandfather was a sailor and owner of a mercantile vessel plying 
between Scotland and Xew Amsterdam. After many trips to the 
new world Captain McAlpine brought his family to live in New 
York, and on the voyage his son, John, was born, June 24, 1764. 
The transplanted Mc Alpines never returned to Scotland, but died 
in New York City and are buried in Trinity churchyard. 

It seems strange that John McAlpine did not choose the navy 
rather than the army when old enough to bear arms, but he evidently 
preferred walking to sailing, for he enlisted in Captain James Wil- 
son's Company, Colonel Graham's First Rhinebeck Regiment, 
Dutchess County Militia. 

Peace established, young McAlpine set forth to seek his fortune 
in Rensselear County and evidently Providence guided him aright, 
for about that time, in the old Dutch Reformed Church near Scho- 
dack, he married Caroline Kilfer, a native of Rhinebeck. 

They had a large family of sons and daughters. Their son, 
Simon, was one of the first engineers of a steamboat on the Hudson 
River. Their daughter, Elizabeth Lansing, was born at Schodack 
July 20, 1805. When she was eighteen years old the family moved 
to < rreenbush near Albany. In this place John McAlpine died Sep- 
tember 23, 1842. Elizabeth married James Finch January 4, 1844, 
and lived in Lyons, Wayne County, New York. Fifty-two years 
of wedded life and then Mr. Finch died, February 6, 1896. 

Mrs. Finch had an ancient sword bearing the name "Lieutenant 
Joseph Bailey" which was captured from a Tory officer at Ver- 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 339 

planck's Point, on the Hudson. One morning, as the Americans 
were preparing - breakfast, they were surprised by a small British 
force. A Continental soldier, who saw the approach, concealed 
himself under an overturned bread trough. An English lieutenant 
danced on top of it and then left, whereupon the American raised 
it enough to aim, fire and kill the officer, whose sword he took as 
a trophy of war. 

Until ninety-three years of age Mrs. Finch did not allow any one 
else to attend to her household duties. Her death occurred at her 
home in Lyons, N. Y., September n, 1903. 



CAROLINE (BROCKWAY) PRATT 

JOHN BROCKWAY— PATRIOT 




jN the old cemetery at Lyme, Connecticut, lies John Brock- 
way, born in that ancient town October 1, 1757. When 
twenty years old he enlisted in the Connecticut Line and 
served one year and six months. Soon after enlistment 
he was promoted to Sergeant in Captain Hall's Company, Colonel 
Ledyard's Regiment. John was one of the few men to escape from 
Fort Griswold, and never to his dying day did he forget that awful 
struggle and the dastardly striking down of his gallant colonel. 

The war over, the young soldier returned to Lyme, married Irene 
Reed, and became a farmer. Family tradition states that Mr. 
Brockway was attached to the staff of Governor Griswold, possibly 
in 1812. 

August 7, 1832, the veteran applied for a pension, which, at his 
death, November 28, 1841, was continued to his widow. 

Caroline, their daughter, born at Lyme, May 8, 181 5, married 
Henry E. Pratt and moved to Essex, Connecticut, where she died 
December 3, 1900. 




DELIA CLARK (mURDOCK) DOWD. 



DELIA CLARK (MURDOCK) DOWD 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILY— MURDOCK 




EPTEMBER 28, 1807, twin babies came to the West- 
brook home of Peter and Bathsheba Murdock. The 
red, pugilistic atom, crying' so loudly, became the Rev- 
erend Charles Elisha Murdock, while his small, quiet 
companion lived to enjoy the distinction of being a "True Daughter 
of the American Revolution." 

Their father, Peter, and his twin brother, Elisha, born October 
13, 1766, were sons of William Murdock, a wealthy farmer and 
slave owner of Westbrook, Connecticut. When they were twenty 
years of age, Elisha fell from a dock and was drowned. Peter, 
working in a cornfield distant from the shore, dropped unconscious 
at the moment of his brother's death. 

At the outbreak of the Revolution, Peter and his brother William 
shipped on the privateer John Gay, a sloop with twelve guns and 
one hundred and sixty seamen, sent out by the New London colo- 
nists. Peter was cabin boy and when the sloop returned with a prize 
he received three hundred dollars, sharing equally in the spoils with 
the others of the crew and thereby causing much jealousy. 

William and Peter Murdock for two years were on the Thomas 
Marshall, a privateer with a crew of one hundred and sixty men. 
The second trip ended at Newport, and from there Peter walked to 
Westbrook. There is no certainty that Peter served at Fort Gris- 
wold, although there a few days after its capture. He often spoke 
of the blood-soaked earth and bullet holes fired through the door at 
men hiding in the magazine. His brother John was seized by the 
British and sent to the West Indies, where, being well educated, he 
was employed as salaried bookkeeper. 

Peter Murdock married Bathsheba (Dodge) Bush, a widow with 
three children, settled on a farm in Westbrook and died March 
26, 1851. 



342 patriots' daughters of Connecticut chapters 

May, 1831, his daughter Delia married Edwin Dowd and com- 
menced housekeeping in Meriden, where her half brother, Fenner 
Bush, manufactured ivory combs. (Eventually this company was 
merged in the Julius Pratt Company which established the first 
factory of table cutlery in the United States.) 

From Meriden the Dowds moved to Ohio, living in Oberlin and 
Elyria. Five children came to the prairie home; Edwin, Zina, 
Delia, Charles and Henry. Mr. Dowd moved to Illinois, stopping 
at Ouincy, but settled in Round Prairie, now Plymouth, where he 
died. 

Mrs. Dowd returned to Meriden and there, September 11, 1897, 
finished her fourscore and ten useful vears of life. 



REBECCA OSBORN 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAM1LY-OSBORN 




LIADA OSBORN, born March 15, 1 761, at Litchfield, was 
with his father and brother, Ethan, in the army, enlist- 
ing the spring of 1777 for six months in Captain Charles 
Catlin's Company. The sixteen-year-old lad was one of 
the guards of the British prisoners, Mayor Matthews of New York 
and Governor Franklin of New Jersey, on Litchfield Hill, and also 
personal attendant to his father, Captain John Osborn. When 
General Washington passed through Litchfield en route for New 
York, Osborn was one' of the village escort. 

May 31, 1795, Eliada married Abigail Marsh, and began house- 
keeping in the homestead built 1775, where their eight children, 
Almeda, Ethan, Myron, John, Rebecca, Elisha, Nathan and Eliada, 
were the fourth generation of Osborns to live in the house. 

Mr. Osborn applied for a pension July 30, 1832, which, when he 
died, December 26, 1847, was continued to his widow. 

Rebecca was born April 28, 1801, and after a long life, concerning 
which she modestly wrote, "there are no facts of interest," died 
at her birthplace, April 24, 1899. 



ANN (TYLER) BEAUMONT 

JOHN TYLER— PATRIOT 





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|( )HN TYLER, born at Branford, Connecticut, March 31, 
1760, was of a milling race. His father, George Tyler, 
built Tyler's Mills at Xorthford, his uncle William, 
Tyler's Mills at Y'alesville, his uncle Lathrop, the 
original Humiston Mill and another uncle, the Quinnipiack Mills of 
Wallingford. John did not avail himself of a miller's exemption 
from military service, but enlisted, 1775, for three months in Cap- 
tain Stephen Potter's Company, Colonel Hall's Regiment ; Feb- 
ruary 21, 1778, in Captain Painter's Company; March 2, 1779, in 
Captain John Gates' Company, Colonel Mead's Regiment, and 1781, 
for one year in Captain Staples' Company. 

It was his privilege to be one of the Boston Tea Party, and his 
daughter told the story of that historic night with as great gusto 
as her father flung the taxed tea into Boston Harbor. 

One day the youth, with a small Branford company sent to 
protect the coast from recent British depredations, met a party of 
American officers. The leader. General Washington, inquired as to 
their errand. When told, he said, "Well, the red coats will get the 
little fellow if you do not take care," meaning Tyler. The soldiers 
proceeded on their way, routed an enemy more numerous than 
themselves and proudly returned to receive Washington's commen- 
dation. Tyler was also on the ship which brought back the treaty 
of peace between England and the Colonies. 

Settling in Branford, he married Anna Rogers, November 20, 
1786. Eight children were born to them, their daughter Ann's 
birth being July 31, 1803. In her girlhood her parents took pos- 
session of the old Tyler home in Xorthford, and in 1832 her father 
applied for a pension, which was granted. Mr. Tyler died Novem- 
ber 5, 1837. In 1827, Ann married John Beaumont of Yv r allingford. 
Saturday morning, January 22, 1898, Mrs. Beaumont, the oldest 
resident of Wallingford, died in the home where she had lived 
seventy-one years. Eight children and ten grandchildren survived 
her. 



NANCY (CLOES) RAY 

CHARLES CLOES— PATRIOT 




IONS of Erin, renowned for love of freedom, are found 
everywhere. Even among- our Patriots was one, Charles 
Cloes, from Old Ireland, born August 10, 1756, near 
Belfast. Rumors of war fired his brave, adventurous 
spirit, and in 1775 he sailed for the Colonies, landed at Baltimore, 
and enlisted for two years in Captain Nathaniel Smith's Company, 
Maryland Artillery. November, 1777, he reenlisted for four years 
in Captain Lansdale's Company, Colonel Samuel Smith's Regiment, 
and participated in the battles of Monmouth, Cow Pens, Guilford 
Court House and Yorktown. 

His fighting finished, the young Irishman drifted northward to 
Morrow, Northumberland County, New York, where he met his 
fate in the person of Hannah Whitney, whom he married in 1783, 
their union blessed by eleven children. 

In 1809 the Cloes family moved to Penfield, now Webster, 
Monroe County. May 4, 1818, Mr. Cloes, a resident of Ontario 
County, received a pension for six years' service in the army. He 
returned to Webster and died September 10, 1838. Mrs. Cloes 
died the following year. 

Their daughter, Nancy, born March 19, 1796, married Joshua 
Ray in 181 5 and had one child, Myron. Her husband died soon 
after their marriage. In 1862 Mrs. Ray moved to Rochester, living 
with her son till his death in i8<;2, and then with her grandson, 
Emmett S. Ray. 

Notwithstanding her one hundred and two years, Mrs. Rav was 
in good health until December 24, 1898, when, as the Christmas 
bells were proclaiming their glad message of Peace, she joined 
her loved ones, in the Heavenly Home. 

Mary Everest Rockwell. 

(MRS. CHARLES IKK ROCKWELL.) 

The Susan Carfington Clarke Chapter of Meriden, with seventeen names of 
"True Daughters" on the membership rolls, .is the banner chapter of the 
National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution. 

Three of these interesting links between to-day and Revolutionary times are 
still living (December, 1904). 



milabswovtb Chapter 



MIDDLETOWN 



2>au0btere of patriots 

ABIGAIL (FOOTE) LOOMIS NATHANIEL FOOTE 



EMILIA ADALINE (CLARK) WATROUS ^ DAVID CLARK 

• ELIJAH CLARK 
' DANIEL CLARK 

LAURA ANN (MARKHAM) SKINNER JOHN MARKHAM 

— Sergeant 



MARY JANE DEMING EDMUND DEMING 



MARY (MCLEAN) WYLLYS JAMES MCLEAN 

—Captain 




ABIGAIL (FOOTE) LOOMI5. 

(From a photograph taken when Mrs. Loomis was ninety-nine 
years and five months old. Mrs. Loomis lived nearly one hundred 
and one years. Her family consisted of seven children, fifteen 
grandchildren, and seventeen great-grandchildren.) 



ABIGAIL (FOOTE) LOOMIS 

NATHANIEL FOOTE— PATRIOT 




RS. ABIGAIL (FOOTE) LOOMIS joined the Wads- 
worth Chapter on November 4, 1897, when ninety-nine 
years old. She had lived in the lifetime of every Presi- 
dent of this country, having been born before the death 
of Washington, and her memory of the events of her early life 
extended with clearness back to the time of John Adams, second 
President. 

She was born June 26, 1798, in Westchester Parish, Colchester, 
Conn., and was the daughter of Nathaniel Foote and of Abigail, his 
wife. She was sixth in descent from Nathaniel Foote, 1st, who was 
one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, Conn. Another ancestor 
of Mrs. Abigail (Foote) Loomis was Thomas Kimberly,* who with 
Mr. Davenport, Mr. Eaton and other gentlemen of good fortune, 
were the founders of New Haven. 

Her father, Nathaniel Foote, served as a private soldier in the 
Revolutionary War. He was at the battle of White Plains, — "I 
often heard him speak of being there," said Mrs. Loomis, — and he 
was afterwards at New London "in the Service" when the town 
was attacked. He was also a Minute Man. 

He was drafted at two different times, and scores of people 
remember seeing Nathaniel Foote's old Revolutionary musket which 
hung over the mantel and was looked upon as a very rare relic. 
His papers of discharge from the service were sent to Washington, 
D. C, and were never returned, and were supposed to have been 
burned in the Government Building when the British troops were 
in occupation in 181 4. Because of this he received no pension. 

Nathaniel Foote, the patriot, was the son of Nathaniel and Patience 
(Gates) Foote. He was born February 7, 1742, in Westchester 
Parish, Colchester, New London County, Conn. He married first, 
March 28, 1769, Jerusha Cadwell, born December, 1747 (daughter 

* For Thomas Kimberly's family see page 11. 



348 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

of John Cadwell) ; she died December 30, 1777, ae. thirty years. 
One child was born to him by his first marriage, namely : 

Huldah, b. Dec. 15, 1769, in Westchester, Conn.; m. June 18, 1789, Oliver 
Usher (b. Dec. 15, 1769, son of Dr. Robert and Susanna (Gates) 
Usher) ; d. Sept. 21, 1701. 

Nathaniel Foote, the patriot, married second, July 16, 1778, 
Patience Skinner (born April 20. 1755, daughter of Richard and 
Patience (Rowley) Skinner); she died March 12, 1790, in her 
thirty-fifth year. 

The children by his second wife, Patience Skinner, were : 

Nathaniel, b. June 8, 1779, in Westchester, Conn.; unmarried; d. Dec. 30, 
1799, in New York City. At his death was lost the family appellative, 
which had been used for seven generations without interruption. 

Jerusha, b. April 3, 1781, in Westchester, Conn. ; m. , her cousin, 

Stephen Skinner (son of Stephen and Mary (Foote) Skinner). They 
resided in Canada. 

Patience, b. Feb. 1, 1783. in Westchester, Conn.; m. Oct. 31, 1799, William 
Brainerd of Westchester, Conn. 

Asa, b. Jan. 31, 1785, in Westchester, Conn.; m. 1st, Sept. 8, i8ti, Betsey 
Gates of Warren, Herkimer Co., N. Y. (b. Sept. 10, 1792; d. Oct. 14, 
1832); m. 2d, Esther Ferry of Sherburne, N. Y. (b. June 18, 1788; 
d. Jan. 21, 1845, ae. 57 years) ; m. 3d, July 12, 1845, Christina Brisban 
of Sherburne, N. Y., b. Jan. 9, 1791 (dan. of John and Vashti Speor). 
She died March 21, 1872, ae. 81 years. He died July 4, 1859, ae. 7S years. 

Lucinda, b. April 24, 1788; m. Amasa Skinner, her cousin (son of Stephen 
and Alary (Foote) Skinner, and brother of Jerusha's husband). 

Absalom, b. March 1, 1790, in Westchester, Conn.; d. March 1, 1790. 

Nathaniel Foote married third, January 31, 1791, in Colchester, 
Conn.. Abigail Foote, his consin (daughter of Israel and Elizabeth 
(Kimberly) Foote). 

The children by his third wife, Abigail (Foote) Foote, all born 
in Westchester, Conn., were : 

Huldah, b. Dec. 4, 1791 ; m. Mar. 2Q, 1824, Amaziah Brainerd, brother of 
Patience Foote's husband; he died April 1, 1841, as. 60 years 9 months. 

Israel, b. May 29, 1794; m. Oct. 13, 1819, Lucy Brainerd (dau. of Bezaleel 
and Lydia (Deming) Brainerd) of East Haddam, Conn. She died Feb. 
24, 1853. He m. 2d, Feb. 12, 1854, Clarissa Ely. 

David, b. April 22, 1796; m. May 28, 1828, Dorothy Shattuck. 

Abigail, b. June 26, 179S; m. Alfred Isham Loomis, April 6, 1826. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 349 

Nathaniel Foote, patriot, died in Colchester, January 22, 1829, 
aged eighty-seven years. Abigail (Foote) Foote, his wife, died Jan- 
nary 2, 1852. Her name has been given to five successive gen- 
erations. 

Abigail Foote, the patriot's daughter, and his eleventh and youngest 
child, received her education in the public schools of her native place 
and at Bacon Academy. In 1826 she was married to Alfred Isham 
Loomis and her entire married life of fifty-six years was spent in 
the old homestead, where she went as a bride. This homestead 
has been handed down from father to son since the settlement of 
the town two hundred years ago. In 1876 Mr. and Mrs. Loomis 
celebrated their golden wedding. After her husband's death Mrs. 
Loomis made her home with her daughter.* 

Alfred Isham Loomis and Abigail ( Foote) Loomis, his wife, had 
seven children, fifteen grandchildren and seventeen great-grand- 
children, as follows : 

Abigail Foote, b. Feb. 11, 1827; m. Chas. E. Brownell, Moodus, Conn., 
Nov. 25, 1852; five children: 

George Loomis Brownell, b. July 13, 1854; m. Sept. 8, 1881, Eliza- 
beth M. Reed (b. Nov. 6, 1854, dau. of Joel S. and Seraphina 
Haynes Everett, missionaries to Turkey, and, upon the death 
of both parents in her infancy, adopted by Air. and Airs. 
Wheeler Reed of Brookfield, Mass.) Their children are: 
Leroy, b. July 27, 1886; d. Oct. 21, 1901. 
Carl Reed, b. Nov. 21, 1889. 
Edward Cole Brownell, b. Jan. 27 ', 1856; m. Aug. 23, 1882, Leila J. 
Alexander (b. Mar. 14, 1859). Their children are: 
Edward A., b. Jan. 11, 1885. 
Abigail Foote, b. June 20, 1888. 
Sylvia Judd, b. June 8, 1893 
Charles Howe Brownell, b. July 7, 1859; m. Nov. 24, 1885, Annie 
Wentz (b. June I, 1864). Their children are: 
Helen, b. June 22, 1889; d. June 22, 1889. 
Roger Wentz, b. Nov. 5, 1892. 
Margaret, b. May 22, 1894; d. Mar. 10, 1S95. 
Mary Hammond Brownell, b. April 15, 1861 ; d. 1862, ae. 10 months. 
Abigail Foote Brownell, b. July 13. 1863: d. April, 1879. 
Alfred Isham, b. Nov. 2, 1S27; d. April 21, 1866. 

Jane Clarissa, b. July 31, 1832; m. Philo Bevin April 9, 1863; no children. 
George Champion, b. Jan. 30, 1835 ; d. Jan. 30, 1847. 

: Mrs. Philo Bevin of East Hampton, Conn. 



35° PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Emily Harvey, b. Mar. 20, 1837 ; m. Edward A. Bliss, April 4, 1861 ; four 
children : 

Edward Milton Bliss, b. Jan. 6, 1863; m. Nov. 14, 1901, Ada 

Richards of Pittsburg, Penn. 
Alfred Loomis Bliss, b. Aug. 17, 1866; m. June 18, 1902, Frances 

Lincoln Smith of Arlington, Mass. 
Jennie Louise Bliss, b. June 11, 1871 ; d. Jan. 9, 1884. 
Helen Augusta Bliss, b. Sept. 22, 1872; m. Jan. 14, 1903, Cushman 
Hartley Case, of Sufheld, Conn. 
Israel Foote, b. Nov. 8, 1839; m. Elizabeth McFadden, Nov. 8, 1866; three 
children : 

Alfred Israel, b. Jan. 10, 1868; d. 1893. 
Charles Brownell, b. Nov. 3, 1869. 

Mary Abigail, b. Aug. 28, 1871 ; m. John MacDonald ; eight children. 
Milton Lathrop, b. July 16, 1842; m. S. Emeline Tracy, Nov. 11, 1869; three 
children : 

George Tracy, b. July 17, 1871 ; m. Gladys Jones of Hebron, Conn.; 

one child, namely, Emeline Tracy, b. 1898. 
John Robbins, b. Aug. 23, 1873. 
Caroline Buell, b. May 23, 1882. 

Mr. Loomis died in 1882 in the same year in which his youngest 
grandchild was born. Mrs. Loomis survived him seventeen years 
and lived to see many great-grandchildren. 

Mrs. Loomis was a member of the Congregational Church at 
Westchester, Conn., from the time she was twenty-six years old, 
and for seventy-four years her life was lived in full accord with the 
vows she then made. It was the custom in those early days for 
young people of studious habits to commit to memory choice selec- 
tions from the English poets. Being favored with a retentive 
memory, Mrs. Loomis, when one hundred years old, could repeat 
many of those poems with perfect accuracy. The Bible was her 
constant companion and was read through at least once every year, 
and her motto for life was "Always rejoicing." 

Mrs. Loomis was born before the days of stoves, when the fire- 
place was the only means of heating the house ; before steam and 
electricity were dreamed of, — when men rode on horseback with the 
women on pillions behind them ; before the day of factories, — when 
maidens wove their own wool and flax on hand looms. Her children 
have woolen and linen made by Mrs. Loomis and her mother, when 
Mrs. Loomis was a girl sixteen Years of acre. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 



35 1 



Abigail (Foote) Loomis was the youngest of eleven children. 
Many of the family lived to a good old age. but she alone reached 
the century mark. In November, 1897, she sat down to her one- 
hundredth Thanksgiving dinner, aged ninety-nine years and five 
months, using at that dinner a gold spoon, the gift of the National 
Societv. The next year, when she was one hundred years old, 




ABIGAIL (FOOTE) LOOMIS. 

(From a photograph taken on her one hundredth birthday. The one hundred roses were a 
gift from Wadsworth Chapter) 

she received a gift of one hundred roses from Wadsworth Chapter, 
as well as visits and congratulations from many friends. The 
following year, June 6, 1899, she passed gently away from earth, 
"just faded into immortality, a glad and joyous going home," only 
lacking twenty days of completing one hundred and one years of 
age. Four of her seven children, twelve of her fifteen grandchildren 
and nine great-grandchildren survive her. Hers was 

"An old age serene and bright 
And lovely as a Lapland night." — Wordsworth. 

Kate L. Elmer. 

- \\ M. T. ELMER. 

Jane C. Loomis Bevin. 

5. I'HII.O BE 1 

Israel Foote Loomis. 

For their assistance in furnishing genealogical data for this sketch, thanks 
are due to Mrs. Emily H. (Loomis) Bliss, Hartford. Conn.: Miss Lucy A. 
Brainerd, Hartford, Conn.; Mr. George Loomis Brownell, Worcester, Mass.: 
Mrs. Edward Cole Brownell. Springfield, Mass. 

Authority: Family tradition and Connecticut Men in the Revolution. 




Eunice (Griffith) clark, 

The second wife of David Clark, Patriot. 

i From a portrait in oil painted when Mrs. Clark was twenty-two years old.) 



EMILIA ADALINE (CLARK) WATROUS 

REPRESENTING PATRIOT FAMILY— CLARK 




RS. EMILIA ADALIXE (CLARK) WATROUS, who 
died at her home in East Hampton, Conn., on August 
13, 1 901, at the age of ninety-nine years and seven 
months, became a member of the Wadsworth Chapter 
of Middletown when nearly ninety-four years of age. 

Her father, David Clark, served in the Revolution as a teamster, 
taking the place of his brother Elijah, who died in the service. 
David Clark's exact age when he entered the army is not known, 
but he was probably about twenty years old. Mrs. VVatrous dis- 
tinctly remembers hearing him tell of the many hardships encoun- 
tered by him and his companions while serving their country; she 
had a vivid recollection of his recital of their manner of preparing 
their resting places for the night, and of how they often made 
their couches of fragrant hemlock boughs. David Clark had a pen- 
sion from 1832 until his death in 1839. 

David Clark was the son of Deacon John Clark of Chatham, East 
Hampton. Conn. Three of Deacon Clark's sons served in the war, 
Elijah, Daniel and David, letters from each of whom written during 
the war, and from various camps, have been preserved by their 
descendants.* 

These letters are all addressed to Deacon John Clark, and open 
in the formal manner of the time usually as follows : Honored 
father and mother: After my duty to you, to grandmother and 
to uncle, and love to all my brothers and sisters, I write to inform 
you, etc. 

The penmanship is that of well educated young men who have 
been also trained to express themselves in writing clearly and 
forcibly. There is a lack of punctuation marks, and frequently sen- 

* These letters are now in the possession of Edwin I). Barton, Esq., of East 
Hampton, a grand-nephew of the patriot and soldier, David Clark. 



354 PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

tences begin with small letters. In copying the letters for this 
sketch, these defects have been remedied simply to make them 
easier to read. The old time spelling is retained, also the generous 
use of capitals, where now we use small letters. Only the letters 
are given which refer to the war. The time covered in these 
letters is nearly three years, the earliest date being November 8, 
1775, and the latest August 3, 1778. The earliest letters have refer- 
ence to the campaign about Boston, the chief events referred to 
being the fortification of Dorchester heights by the Americans, and 
the evacuation of Boston by the British (March 17, 1776). 

Roxbury, Nov. 8, 1775. 
Honored Father and Mother: 

Notwithstanding all the talk of staying Another Month, I Believe 
we shall be Dismissed by the Last of this Month. You Say you 
Meant to go to Woodbury this week, but if by any means you 
should not go I would have you Send my Deed to me if you 
have any opportunity .So that I may go to Cohoes when my time 
is out, if I think that it will do for me, but that is Uncertain. . . 

Your Dutiful Son 

Daniel Clark. 

Brookline, March ye 5th AD 1776. 

Honored Parents: — I have Abundant Reason to Bless the Name 
of God for this opportunity of writing to you to let you Know how 
I do. You must Needs think that I am something Tired and Beat 
out for Last Night I went on upon Dorchester to work and we 
have got Fortified upon the Hill and otherwhere [else where?] 
[which is] most Amazing considering what time we had. Our men 
are Still upon the Hill. I came off this morning and am going on 
at one o'clock to Night again. Our going on this Hill is one 
of the gratest [greatest] aventures that ever we have done. 

Last Saturday night the Segue [Siege] Begun and Since then 
there has been but Little Cesation of firing tho to but Very little 
purpus [purpose] for there has Been but three men killed as I 
have heard of. 

By these things as well as others We plainly See that God is 
on our Side and we Need not fear what Men Can do unto us, &c. 
My convenancics [conveniences] of writing are very poor and T 
Can give you but A very imperfect account of Afairs [affairs]. 
I have seen prince Moseley and Philo Clark and they are well &c. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 355 

There is a company Come into the House and my Head is con- 
fused. I must Leave off Abruptly and Conclude by Subscribing 
.Myself. 

Your Dutiful Son 

David Clark. 
P. S. 

Stephen Clark is well and Come on to Dorchester in A part}' that 
Relieved me this morning' and I am going on to Night to Relieve 
him. 

Roxbury March 21st AD 1776. 

Dear Parents: — 

I Received yours of the 13th instant which I re[a]d with pleasure 
And I must Inform you that I have been poorly but am in Hopes 
that I shall get Hearty Again Soon. Last Sabbath the Enemy 
Marched out of Boston And our men went in and Took possession 
of the town which they hold yet and the Night before last the 
Regulars burnt the block house on the Castle and the ship[p]ing 
are about all gone from it. So we expect to march Away Soon 
to what place we Know not. 

You wanted to know how we faired [fared] About Sauce and 
other provisions. We have meat and bread enough. As for Sauce 
we have not drawed [drawn?] any this fort night past. But we 
can make out well enough Xow for there is Sauce Comes to market. 
We Are about 4 miles from Dorchester and the duty has been So 
that they go on One day and Night and of[f] another. Please 
to remember My regards to all my friends. So no more at present. 
I remain your Dutiful Son till Death. Farewel[l] 

Elitaii Clark. 
P.S. 

The Post says he Brought things for me but left them at Col- 
chester. It was so bad traviling he could Xot bring them. I saw 
Daniel and Brother Judd yesterday and the}' are well. 

Brookline April 5th 1776. 
To Deacon Clark at East Hampton Sir: 

I take this opportunity to acquaint you of the Illness of your 
Son Daniel. He Has the mumps. I Expected he would Be able to 
Set out for home By this time and got a Beath (?) [beast?] for 
him to ride but he is not able. There seems to be a relapse of 
his fever. Pain in the head & Diziness. . . 

Acute fever may Set in & [he] remain Til for sometime. My 
Bisiness [business] is Such that I Cant Stay But a few Days Longer. 
Therefore think fit if you Can Come, take the Care and help him 



35^ PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

home when able. He is at Deacon Gardner's Brookline a good 
Place convenafiejnt, and all proper care taken of him. There are 
Several Sick here \ Shant go till I Engage Some Doctor that is 
faithfull to See [to] them. This I write unbeknown to him and 
with respect to yon Sir, I Remain your friend and wellwisher 

Robert Usher. 

Later the writers are in camp near Xew York and references are 
made to the great events of the campaign here, namely the battles 
of Long Island (August 27, 1776) and White Plains (October 
28, 1776) ; the places from which the letters are written. New York, 
North Castle, Phillipsborough, being the different places of encamp- 
ment of the army as it moved about, pursued by General Howe 
during the autumn of 1776, just as described in any history of the 
American Revolution. 

After the capture of Xew York by the British, and after Washing- 
ton's skilfully planned retreats which saved his army from defeat, 
Washington "concentrated his whole army at White Plains." On 
October 28 occurred the battle of White Plains. Three clays later, 
"Washington fell back on North Castle, where he took a position so 
strong that it was useless to think of assailing him."* 

Xew York August ye 20th AD 1776 
Honored Parents. I Welcome this opportunity of writing to you 
to inform you of my wellfare and Enquire after yours and these 
may serve to inform you that I have Recovered my health Almost 
to Perfection for which I have Abundant Reason to Bless God, 
for his goodness and mercy has Been great towards me and I 
hope by the Same indulgent providence that these Lines may 
find you all enjoying the Same Blessings. I am to inform you 
that I Receive your Letter of ye nth instant and am thankfnll for 
the same and for the things you have Sent tho I have not yet 
got them nor do I know how man}- things you have Sent for I have 
not had opportunity to do any Business with Captain Griffin since 
he came in which was yesterday. 1 have seen Brother Peter 
Parker Several times Since he came on with the Militia. I have 
also seen Elijah yesterday and he is in the Hospital Something 
poorly but 1 hope it is Nothing but A bad cold. Daniel Churchel 

* John Fiske, The American Revolution, Vol. T, p. 228. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 357 

lias been sick but is getting' better. Nathaniel White has Been 
Sick but is getting better. It is Something of a Sickly time in the 
Army, but I hope the Pestilence is something as[s]uaged. Yester- 
day as 1 went to attend the funeral of Gideon Cook (who died 
yesterday morning) I saw four of my fellow Creatures Laid in 
the Grave, and going to the House of all the Living. 

I have Nothing Special to write only that the ships that were 
up the North River are gone down and Received no great Damage 
as the wind was fair and the tide with them. This minute there 
is A flag of truce come up and our men sent one to meet them 
but they did not stay together any. 

There are many things that I should be glad to write to you 
but time will not admit of it So I Conclude by Desiring the 
Continuance of your favor & subscribe myself 

Your Dutiful Son 

Daniel Clark 



Augst 2 1 st. Last Evening I received another of your letters 
giving me an Account of what you Sent me. I also went on bord 
[board] Cpt. Griffin and Received the Barel [barrel] and Bag and 
am very thank full for the Contents they being Such things as I 
Stand in great Need of &c. T heard last night that Elijah was 
Better. 

North Castle November ye 6th 1776 
Dear Parents: once more I take my pen in hand to inform you of 
my condition at present. The 23rd of Last month I Left my Quar- 
ters in the Jarseys and Joined tbe Ridgment [regiment] at White 
plains and that night the Brigade was Removed to another place in 
White Plains and Since that we have Removed our Encampment 
twice and are now at North Castle and I am in A Comfortable State 
of health for which I have abundant Reason to Bless God for in all 
my Campaigns I have never faired [fared] Near So hard as since 
I Joined the Ridgment. 

I have not heard anything" about Eli jab Since Sargt Norton was 
there and I feel concerned About him but all tbe good any of us 
can do him at present is to Recommend him to the protection of 
Almighty God. However I hope we shall Both Return in Due time 
and find all friends well. Send me A Letter the first opportunity 
& Let me know how you do. Time will not Admit me to write 
any more So I Subscribe your Dutifull Son. 

Daniel Clark. 



358 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Philips Borough November 13th 1776 
Honored Parents The Post has this minit (minute) Come into 
our Camps from Colonel Willises Ridgment and is in Such A 
hurry that I Should not have written at this time had it not 

A Been that he Brought to my Ears the S and melancholy 

news of the Death of Your dear Son and my Beloved Brother 
Elijah Clark. May this Dispensation of Devine Providence be 
Sanctified to us all for our Eternal good and in a Special man[n]er 
to me who am not only his effectionate and Natural Brother but 
a fel[l]ow Soldier and a Brother in Sickness, trouble and Danger 
but now by the goodness of god have the perfect Enjoyment of 
my Health, and may god of his Mercy grant that these Lines may 
find all of you enjoying the Same Blessing and will prepare you 
to Receive Such lines as these and hear the he[a]vy News of the 
Death of the Deseast [Deceased]. Except these Uncorrected Lines 
from the trembling hand of your Dutiful Son. 

Dall Clark. 

P.S. I desire the Continuence of your prayers to God for me. 

The last letters are dated 1778. Tn the meantime the campaigns 
around Philadelphia and the battle of Monmouth, New Jersey, 
have occurred "and Washington seeing that it was useless to fur- 
ther molest Clinton's retreat marched straight for the Hudson River, 
and on the 20th of July encamped at White Plains, while his 
adversary took refuge in New York. The opposing armies occupied 
the same ground as in 1776. But the Americans were now the 
aggressive party."* 

Fort Arnold June 9, 1778 
Hond Father and Mother; 

I have not any News of importance to Communicate to you only 
we are Under Marching Orders and Expect Soon to Leave This 
post and when we shall go I know not nor care. I have inlisted 
three men for during the war and should be Glad Somebody would 
take the Advantage of Hiring them for only 40 £ Apiece. I have 
Wrote to my wife to hurry herself About my Shirts which I would 
not have her doo for I have drawn one and I have one more So 
that I am very Comfortable on that Account. I only want some 
Stock &c. I am at present in Considerable of A Ruffle of Spirits — 
the Reason we have been drawing our Cloaths which were kept in 

* John Fiskc, The American Revolution, Vol. II, p. 72. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 359 

the possession of the officers Long Enough for them to Pick out the 
Best of the Shoes and Frocks and Laid them by for them [selves] 
and Favorites. A Lieut, in our Company was Seen to take 4 or 5 
pairs of Shoes for himself which he delivered to Some of the 
Farmington Men as Occation (Occasion) Requires. There was 
Some Aery Genteel Frocks and they was all Laid by and Sergt. 
Coe would not Receive Such as was presented for us and after we 

had taken Such as was [offered] then afterward Lt sent 

for him and Gave him one of the Good Ones. * :;: :;: 

Several things Have turned up very disagreeable Since I left 
home but they are all unbeknown to Capt. Champion. I mean to 
apply for Redress and if 1 Cant Get it 1 Mean to Hire a Man in 
my Room if it costs me 20o£ for I will not be [illegible] by Lt. 

The Capt. will soon take command of the Company and 

I expect an alteration then — I will thank you not to communicate 
the Least Complaint for it would be Very disagreeable to my wife 
to think that 1 am uneasy. I am not sick of the Service but 
affrunted [ ?] with my Lt. — — which perhaps I may Get Over 
I have the happiness to inform you that I have been interrupted this 
moment by an Express from Capt. Champion Requesting me to 
send my Frock and Shoes to him &c. — I have the Return which 
is Very Good and Suits me Well. The Capt. is my friend . . . 
I mistake, if 'twas not for him I should lie unhappy 

Brother Ephraim Sends Love to yon all. 

Be pleased to Give my duty to my Grandmother & Uncle Usher 
and Love to Brothers & Sisters & all Friends. 

I desire you to Write every opportunity & conclude subscribing 
myself 

Your Obedient Son and Very Humd Servt. 

Danll Judd Jun. 
P.S. the paper is ) 
Mortal poor. f 

Camp White Plains 

Augt. 3rd 1778 
Hond Father & Mother: 

I will Say but A Little about the State of afairs [affairs] for 
I Cannot tell by the Movements what will or what they mean to 
have done but thus much is true All his Excellency's Army ( except 
Genii. Arnold's Division which was left at Philadelphia) is Arived 
here and we are making Daily Advances On the Enemy by a Large 
1 )etached party which is Reinforced Every Day — Enemy's disar 
tions [desertions] are very frequent the Avaredge [average] is 
Computed at 8 pr. day which say they are all very much dishearted 



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PATRIOTS DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 



and would make their Escape if possible. There are many Inhabi- 
tants near the Lines which have A Large bounty for taking up 
Disarters [deserters] from them and many Get Nabbed Coming out 
to us &c. Be pleased to give my duty to grandmother and uncle 
Moses. Love to Brothers & Sisters & Compliments to Inquiring 
friends I am your most obedient Son & very Humble servt. 

Daniel Judd, Jun. 




HOME OF DEACON JOHN CLARK, 2D. 

Built in 1730. The birth-place of Patriots David, Elijah and Daniel Clark. Located on Clark's 
Hill, East Hampton Society, town of Chatham. 

Deacon John Clark, 2(\, lived on the homestead of his father, John 
Clark. 1st, and kept the house as a tavern on the old bridle path from 
Providence to Middletown. The tavern sign is still in existence. 
David Clark kept it as a public house after the death of his father. 

David Clark was born May 2$, 1760; he married first Jerusha 
Hall, September 19, 1782, who died August 24, 1800; he married 
second Eunice Griffith, November 14, 1801, who died July 27, 
181 1 ; he married third Mehitable Hubbard, May 2, 1813, who died 
November 26, 1854. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 361 

The children of David Clark and Jerusha (Hall) Clark, his first 
wife, were : 

Elijah, b. Jan. 28, 1784; m. Polly Hubbard, June 24, 1819; d. Dec. 15, 1871. 
Chauncey, b, Jan. 10, 1789; m. Zilpah Griffith, Nov. 20, 1813; d. Aug. 10, 
1850. 

The children of David Clark and Eunice (Griffith) Clark, his 
second wife, were : 

Deborah, b. Nov. 3, 1802; m. Hubbard Barton, Dec. 6, 182 1 ; d. April 22, 

1884. 
Emilia, b. Jan .7, 1805; m. Monories Watrous, Sept. 10, 1826; d. Aug. 13, 1901. 
Jerusha. b. Dec. 1, 1807; in. Lewis Utley, May 20, 1828; d. Dec. 20, 1842. 

David Clark by his third wife, Mehitable (Hubbard) Clark, had 
one daughter, namely : 

Mary Esther, b. Jan. 2-, 1814; m. William Bailey, Feb. 19, 1834; d. Sept. 
17, 1889. 

David Clark the patriot died January 8, 1839. 

David Clark was the first Master Mason in the town of Chatham, 
and for a time his dwelling house served as Masonic headquarters. 
This fact made Mrs. Watrous eligible for membership in the order 
of The Eastern Star, and, at the age of ninety-four, she became a 
member of that organization. She afterwards made a bed-quilt 
composed of several hundred pieces which she presented to the 
Masonic Home at Wallingford, Conn., where it is highly valued 
as the handiwork of an aged woman, and also because in its 
design and finish it can be called a work of art. 

After she had attained the age of ninety years, Mrs. Watrous 
became much interested in the Temporary Home for dependent 
children at Haddam, and to this institution she contributed her 
strength and skill in the shape of pretty cloth dolls for the little 
ones, which were a source of much happiness to them. 

Her skill at embroidery, even in her extreme old age, was remark- 
able ; and in the art of making button-holes she was an adept. In 
the early years of her married life, she spun and wove all the 
material necessary to clothe her family of four children. Mrs. 
Watrous was only six Years of age at the time of her mother's 



362 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

death, and she considered herself very fortunate in her stepmother, 
attributing- much of her skill with the needle to her stepmother's 
careful training and painstaking teaching. 

Mrs. Watrous and her husband joined the First Congregational 
Church in East Hampton on July 5, 1846, and throughout her long 
life, she daily exemplified the Christian religion which she had 
professed. Her intellect remained unimpaired to the last, never 
at any time showing signs of weakening through her long illness, 
which extended over a period of seven months, and during which 
she was attended by the loving ministry of all her children. Emilia 
Adaline (Clark) Watrous died August 13, 1901, aged ninety-six 
years and seven months. "She rests from her labors, and her works 
do follow her." 

All of her four children survive her, namely : Mrs. Eunice Grif- 
fith Adams, Deacon John Watrous, Miss Man- Jane Watrous and 
Clark Monories Watrous. 

Elizabeth H. Bevin. 

I MRS. WM. H. BEVIN.) 

Mrs. Watrous' daughter, Mrs. Adams, has a handsomely decorated plate, 
which is about two hundred years old, and which belonged to David Clark, 
the Revolutionary soldier; also a valuable oil painting (over one hundred 
years old) of Mrs. Watrous' own mother, Eunice Griffith (wife of the patriot, 
David Clark), which is a fine portrait of a beautiful woman. See illustration, 
P- 352. 



LAURA ANN (MARKHAM) SKINNER 

JOHN MARKHAM— PATRIOT 






RS. LAURA ANN (MARKHAM) SKINNER became 
a member of the Wadsworth Chapter October 25, 1898. 
She was born October 25, 1813, in Middle Haddam, 
town of Chatham, Conn. She was the daughter of 
John Markham, and of his wife, Anna Esterbrook Niles. 

John Markham was born in 1756. He served under two enlist- 
ments, holding the office of sergeant. On the first call for troops 
by the Connecticut legislature, John Markham enlisted May 8, 1775, 
and served in the Second Regiment, commanded by General Spencer. 
He was discharged December 18, of the same year. 

In the spring of 1777, as the recruiting for the Continental Line 
progressed slowly, Washington, in March, urged Governor Trum- 
bull to send a body of militia to serve for six weeks in the vicinity 
of Peekskill. Three regiments, composed of detachments from the 
militia regiments, were accordingly ordered forth, and were placed 
under the command of 

General Erastus Wolcott 
Sixth Militia Regiment 

Colonel Belden 
Sergeant John Markham. 

John Markham received his discharge May 19, 1777. 

John Markham, the patriot, often referred to his experiences dur- 
ing the war, two of which his daughter recalled. One concerned 
his presence at the capture of Burgoyne ; the other, his hiding in 
a swamp for three days in company with other soldiers, when they 
were pursued by the enemy, their only food being a hard shell 
squash. The gun which he carried during his Revolutionary service 
is now in the possession of his great-great-grandson.* John Mark- 

* Ambrose Markham Starr of East Hampton. 



364 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

ham was a pensioner on the list of 1840. With his first pension 
money he purchased a set of china, which is now the property of his 
granddaughter. 

The children of John Markham and of his first wife, whose 
family name was Smith, were: John, Hiram, Betsy, Asenath. 

The children of John Markham by his second wife, Anna (Niles) 
Markham, were: Ambrose and Laura (twins), who were born 
October 25, 1813; Laura Markham married Samuel Skinner, Octo- 
ber 6, 1 84 1. 

John Markham the patriot died April 15, 1852, aged ninety-six 
years. 

Mrs. Skinner united with the First Congregational Church in 
East Hampton September, 1842, and occupied a large place in its 
work. Having no children, she opened her home to several young 
people, one or more at a time, and the poor of her neighborhood 
found in her a friend. For many years it had been her custom to 
knit mittens for Christmas gifts for needy children in the town, 
and until a few months previous tojier death her busy hands were 
employed in this way. 

Mrs. Skinner kept in touch with the questions of the day, and did 
not hesitate to express her opinions. She possessed an unusually 
active mind, a quick wit and a strong sense of the humorous, and 
her gift in repartee was remarkable ; she was unusually frank and 
straightforward in her dealing, characteristics which she inherited 
from her father. Tn the days when she was able to mingle in the 
social life of the town, her presence was always a mental stimulus 
to those with whom she came in contact. 

Mrs. Skinner died at her home in East Hampton. March 6, 1902. 

Kate L. Elmer. 

(MRS. \VM. T. ELMER) 

Elizabeth H. Bevin. 

(.MRS. \VH. H. BEVIN.) 



MARY JANE DEMING 

EDMUND DEMING— PATRIOT 





MARY JANE DEM IXC. 

ISS MARY JANE DEMING of East Haddatn, Conn., 
became a member of the Wadsworth Chapter of Mid- 
dletown on May 10, 1898, when ninety-one years old. 
She was born in Hebron. Conn., April 6, 1807. 
Her father, Edmund Deming, was born in 1759. He was a 
native of Andover, Conn., and died there August 7. 1829, at the 
age of about seventy years. Her mother, Bethiah Clay, was a 
sister of Captain Stephen Clay, who was at one time prominent in 
Middletown, and an active member of the Episcopal Church there. 
Stephen Clay died in 1809, leaving several thousand dollars to the 
church. Bethiah Clay was twice married, Edmund Deming being 
her second husband. 



366 PATRIOTS'' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

Edmund Deming's* name is on the Lexington Alarm list 
( I 775) • an d he was also at the battle of Bunker Hill. He served 
under Gen. Putnam in the Third Regiment, Sixth Company, march- 
ing in May to the camps forming around Boston. During the 
siege and until the expiration of his service this regiment was 
stationed at Cambridge. 

Mary Jane Deming was named for her grandmother, Jane Jessey, 
and for her great aunt, Mary Jessey, residents of Portland, Conn. 
Mary Jessey, it is believed, was stolen by the Indians, and the 
following story has been handed down. Three sisters, Jane, Mary, 
and Kate Jessey, wandered from home, gathering wild flowers. 
Jane did not feel well, and returned home, leaving the others. 
When night came the two missing sisters were looked for in vain. 
After a prolonged search, Kate was found dead in the hollow 
trunk of a tree where she had probably hidden from the Indians, 
but Mary never was heard from. 

When Mary Deming was quite young, the family resided in 
Colchester, Conn., and for eight years Mary attended the Bacon 
Academy there. The remainder of her life up to 1893 was spent 
in Middletown, where her mother died in 1854, at the age of 
ninety-three years. Her eyesight failing in 1891, Miss Deming 
gave up her housekeeping cares and removed to East Haddam, to 
be with her relatives, who by their devoted care made her last 
days happy. Miss Deming united with the First Church of Christ, 
or the North Congregational Church, at Middletown more than 
fifty years ago, when Rev. John Crane was the pastor. 

Miss Deming was a very interesting woman, sympathetic, fond of 
her friends and very patient with her blindness. Her memory was 
remarkable, and she was interested in the news of the clay up to 
the time of her death. She died in East Haddam December 2, 

1899. 

Kate L. Elmer. 

(MRS. WM. T. ELMER.) 

Julia M. Woodward. 

Authority : Connecticut Men in the Revolution. 

Miss Deming's entrance papers to the Wadsworth Chapter. 
Family traditions. 

* Edmund Deming, whose name sometimes appears as Edward Damon, 
received a pension. 



MARY (McLEAN) WYLLYS 

james Mclean— patriot 




RS. MARY (McLEAN) WYLLYS was born in Glaston- 
bury, Conn., in 1804, and is the daughter of James 
McLean and of his wife, Abigail Strickland. 

James McLean was born in Branford, Conn., in 
1755, and died in East Glastonbury in 1846. He first served as 
a private and afterward was made captain of the militia. He heard 
the news of the battle of Bunker Hill early one morning, and began 
immediately to make preparations for going to the war ; first he 
took his musket to the gun shop to be repaired, then he went to the 
next town and had leather shoes made for marching, and with shoes 
and gun returned to his home in the evening. The next morning 
at two o'clock, he started on foot for Boston. At Springfield, 
Mass., he met other volunteers from Connecticut, and joining them, 
he continued his journey to Boston, where they were all placed 
under the command of General Putnam. Later in the war he was 
with General Washington at Valley Forge, but most of the time 
until the close of the war he was on the sea. 

James McLean was twice a prisoner, both times on the ocean. 
The first time was shortly after the battle of Bunker Hill, when he 
was made prisoner by the Glasgow. He was taken to the West 
Indies, and when the ship was about three miles from Jamaica he 
made his escape by swimming towards shore in the shadow cast in 
the bright moonlight by the ship's mast. A fellow prisoner, named 
French, escaped with him. At Kingston, a woman named McPher- 
son hid them for six weeks until she found a ship sailing for Cuba. 
From Cuba they found a vessel going to Savannah ; from Savannah 
they walked back to Connecticut. He was a prisoner the second 
time on a prison ship in Xew York harbor and used to be ordered 
to swim to the English ships to get powder and ammunition. 



368 PATRIOTS' DAUGHTERS OF CONNECTICUT CHAPTERS 

When Air. McLean was taken prisoner, the English officer in 
charge was asked by a scornful woman, "Have you got all the 
Yankees?" McLean stepped from the ranks of the prisoners and 
thundered "No, there are enough left to take care of Burgoyne." 
Burgoyne had just surrendered. 

Mary McLean Wyllys, the patriot's daughter, was born in 1804, 
and was married in 1824. She died in January, 1904, having lived one 
hundred years, in a house purchased by her father and built before 
the Revolutionary War. She joined Wads worth Chapter April 14, 
1896, aged ninety-two, and was presented with a gold spoon, the 
official souvenir from the National Society. Owing to the kind 
efforts of Connecticut congressmen, she has quite recently been 
granted a pension which makes her declining years comfortable. 

Kate L. Elmer. 

(MRS. \VM. T. ELMER.) 



NDEX 



Abell, Abel, 323 

Alice, 323 

Amiel, 323 

Asahel, 323 

Daniel, 323 

Elijah, 311, 323, 324 

Isaac, 323 

Jabez, 323 

James Lathrop, 323 

Jemima (Brainerd), 323 

Lucy (Hubbard), 323 

Martha, 310, 311, 323, 324 

Robert, 323 
Abbott, Mary I., 146 
Adams, Eunice Griffith, 362 

Harriet Louisa, 80, 81 

John, 4, 5, 347 

Mary Ann, 72 

Sarah, 81 
Alander, Hannah, 53 
Aldworth, Elizabeth, 10 

Ellen, 10 

John, 10 

Robert, 10 
Alexander, Collins, 225 

Henry, 225 

Leila J., 349 

Lydia, 217, 219, 225 

Mabel (Dorchester), 225 

Mary, 225 

Nelson. 225 

Thomas, 217, 225 
Allen, Adeline, 80, 81 

Alathea, 39 

Daniel, 152 

Eleanor (Anderson), 93 

James. 174 

Lucretia (Holt), 174 

Thirza, 93 

William, 93 
Allison, Eliza, 263 
Allvn, Charles, 115 

John. 28 

Sarah, 39 



Ahvorth, Esther, 158 
Ames, Abby S. (Holt), 174 

Enoch, 174 

Keziah, 128 

Mary M. (Holt), 174 
Anderson, Aaron, 93 

Abigail (Childs), 93 

Ann Maria, 93 

Eleanor, 93 

George, 91-94 

James, 93 

'Mary, 93 

Mary (Evans), 93 

Matilda, 93 

Nathan, 93 

Sarah, 91-94 

Sarah Ann, 93, 94 

Sarah (Skirm), 93 

Thirza (Allen), 93 
Andre, John, 38, 203. 239, 

247, 319 
Andrews, Ebenezer, 81 

Eleanor, 79, 81 

Ermina S., 231 

Rachel (Hyde), 81 

Ruth, 229 
Anthony, Abigail (Eddy), 

275 

Cyrus, 275 

Elizabeth Eddy, 275 

Eunice, 275 

James. 275 

Jessie Keyes, 276 

Lydia, 275 

Mary Chace. 275 

Richard, 275 

Richard Bowen, 275 
Armstrong, Ketura, 266 
Arnold, Benedict, 79, 101, 

173. 235. 261, 331, 359 
Ashley, Benjamin, 285 

Sabra (Strickland), 285 
Atwater, Abigail Ann, 310, 
3ii 



Atwater, Abraham, 311, 327 

Flamen, 327 

Isaac, 311, 327 

Jonathan, 327 

Mary (Ball), 327 

Patience (Peck), 327 

Samuel, 311, 327 

Timothy, 327 
Austin, Catharine (Gerry), 
10 

James T., 10 
Avery, Allyn J., 72 

Angelina (Loring), 67-75 

Eddie Dwight, 72 

Elisha B., 69, 72 

Fred Lester, "J2 

Hannah, 121 

Harriet Sawyer, 72 

James, 121 

Babcock, Betsey, 62 

Elizabeth, 43 

Ely, 259 

Flora L. (Pierce), 259 

Harry, 117 

Hezekiah, 43 

Lucy, 41 

Luke, 45 

Martha, 43, 45, 46 

Martha (Hoxsie), 43 
Bailey, Andrew, 169 

Anna Warner, 32, 54, 55 

Cynthia Nancy, 295 

Eliza Florilla, 295 

Eliza (Wheeler), 287, 294, 

295 
Elizabeth Bethany, 295 
Hezekiah Willard, 295 
Joseph, 338 
Mary E. (Clark), 361 
Robert, 127 
Wesley Flavel, 295 
Willard, 295 
William, 361 



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INDEX. 



Baker, Benjamin, 94 

Lucy (Hale), 285 

Sarah S. (Eaton), 94 

Vienna (Hale), 285 
Baldwin, Caleb, 191 

Deborah, 102 

Eliza, 119 

Ephraim, 186 

Eunice, 102 

Hannah, 102 

James, 102 

Jeduthan, 141 

Jeremiah, 301 

Jesse, 102 

Lucia A. (Pierce), 301 

Mary (Hall), 237, 249 

Mary ( Plumb), 102 

Mercy, 186. 188 

Ransom, 237 

Sarah, 102 

Sarah (Warner), 186 

Silas, 99, 102 

Zuriel, 102 
Ball, Lucy, 12 

Mary, 327 
Banks, Aaron, 88, 90 

Anna, 87 

Betsey, 90 

Bradley, 90 

Clarissa, 89 

Eli. 89 

Elijah, 77- 85^7 

Finetta, 87 

Harriet, 87 

Harriet ( Furman), 87 

John, 77, 89 

Julia, 77, 87, 89 

Mabel, 89 

Mabel (Bradley), 88, 89 

Mabel (Ogden), 85-87 

Marietta, 87 

Marilda, 90 

Mary, 87 

Medad, 89 

Nathan, 77, 87-90 

Pamela. 77, 89, 90 

Peter. 88 

Polly. 90 

Pollv A. (Sherwood), 90 

Sally (Coley), 87 

Samuel Ogden, 87 

Sarah Whitney, 90 

Walter. 85 

William. 87 
Barber, John Warner, 32 



Barker, Mary, 43 
Barnes, Amos, 137, 152 

Ellen A., 146 
Barnum, Elihu, 306 
Bartholomew, Lydia Adela, 

237 s „ 

Barton, Deborah ( Clark) , 361 

Edward D„ 353 

Hubbard, 361 
Bassett, Carlton, 74 

Ellen A. (Snow), 74 

Julius, 292 

Sarah (Lum), 292 
Batty, Hannah T. (Moore), 
128 

John, 128 
Baum, Green R., 307 
Beadle, Joseph B., 144 

Laura A. (Higgins), 144 
Beardslee, Bogardus, 2(56 

Statira (Hodge), 265, 266 
Beardsley, Minot L., 205 

Statira" (Hodge), 251 
Beaumont, Ann (Tyler), 
310, 311 

John, 343' 
Beckwith, Absalom, 125 

Emma (Way), 125 
Beecher, Huldah, 153 

Jesse, 148, 150 

Lucy ( Ball), 12. 13 

Samuel, 148, 150 
Beers, Eliza Sherwood, 90 
Belcher, William, 49 
Belden, Col., 363 

Anna, 19 

Fanny, 19 

Horace, 19 

Joseph, 19 

Rachel Selina (Fowler), 

15-19 

Thomas, 105 
Benedict, Elizabeth, 209 

Thomas. 209 
Benham, Betsey (Tift), 114 

En os, 289 

John. 114 

Sarah, 289 
Benjamin, Hannah (Lewi'-). 

229 
Bennett, Joseph, 79 

Mary A., 305 
Benton, Anna (Filler), 27 

Anna Maria. 25 32 

Anna ( Stanley), 27, 28 



Benton, Chloe (Loomis), 28 

Elihu Stanton, 25 

Eliza (Morgan), 28 

Elizabeth, 28 

Elizur, 28 

Fanny, 28 

Henry, 28 

Lucy Ann (Starr), 28 

Theodore Stanley, 28 

Thomas, 28 

William Sidney, 28 
Bestor Fanny (Benton), 28 

Samuel, 28 
Betts, Alfred, 210 

Amaryllis, 210 

Betty, 209 

Eliza Susan, 210 

Elizabeth (Benedict), 209 

Esther, 209 

Eulalia, 210 

Grace ( Hanford), 210 

Flarriet, 210 

Henry, 210 

Hezekiah, 207, 209-211 

Juliette, 206, 207, 209-211 

Lydia, 209 

Mary, 209 

Mehitable, 210 

Robert W., 210 

Sarah ( Marvin), 209 

Solomon E., 210 

Stephen, 210, 211 

Susan, 211 

Susannah, 209 

Thomas, 208, 209, 211 

Xenophon, 2T0 
Bevin, Elizabeth IL, 362, 

364 
Jane C. Loomis, 349, 351 
Philo. 349, 351 
Mrs. Wm. H., 364 
Bidwell, Clara E., 108 
Delia, 253, 260 
James, 257 

Lovicy (Swetland), 257 
Mabel", 244 
Martha, 136 
Samuel Walter, 119 
Sarah M. (Wheeler), 119, 

T2I 

Billings, Grace, 46, 48 
Bingham. Hiram, 29 
Bird, Ann P. (Knowlton), 
269 
Anna Mather, 283 



INDEX. 



371 



Bird, Anna May, 283 
Christianna, 94 

Empson, 283 

Louisa. 283 

Mary E. (Ear]e),283 

Thompson, 281 

William Knowlton, 283 
Birdsey, Joseph, 292 
Birdseye, Mary Louise, 295 
Bishop, Ellen Kilbourne, 129 

Meribah, 295 
Bixby. Mrs. Allen, 95 
Blackmail, Elijah, 294 
Blake, Eliza, 102 

Eunice (Baldwin), 102 

Harpin, 102 

Harriet, 102 

Isaac, 102 

Minerva, 99-103 

Polly, 102 

Reuben, 99, 101-103 

Sally, 102 

Silas, 102 
Blakeslee, Ann Eliza (How- 
land). 102 

Louise Y., 144 
Bliss, Ada Richards, 350 

Alfred Loomis, 350 

Candace, 299 

Edward A., 350 

Edward Milton, 350 

Emily H. (Bliss), 350 

Emily H. (Loomis), 351 

Frances L. (Smith), 350 

Helen Augusta, 350 

Jennie Louise, 350 
Bolles, Benjamin, 164 

Franes A. (Steel), 164 

Henry, 164 

Mary (Morley), 164 
Boltwood, Lucius M., 280 
Booth, Allida, 293 

Charles, 290 
Jeannette, 188 

Roxy Candee, 290 
Boozey, James, 27 

Sarah, 27 
Borodel, Ann, 53, 59 
Borodell, Margaret, 121 
Bowe, Asa, 285 

Sabra (Strickland), 285 
Bowen, Col., 319 
Bradley. Abby. 327 
Abigail A. (Atwater), 310. 
311, 326-S 



Bradley, Abigail (Doolittle), 

327, 
Emeline, 327 
Harriet (Peck), 327 
Frances (Coe), 327 
Frank, 309 
Gladys, 309 
Isabella, 231 
Jennie, 329 
Levi, 327 
Mabel, 88, 89 
Maria (Bronson), 310, 

3ii, 329 

Nathaniel L., 327 

Phebe, 12, 13 

Samuel, 327 

Sarah F. (Reed), 309 

William F., 329 

William L., 327 
Brainard, Adelaide (Fos- 
ter), 264 
Brainerd, Amaziah, 348 

Bezaleel, 348 

Huldah (Foote), 348 

Jemima, 323 

Lucy, 348 

Lucy A., 351 

Lydia (Deming), 348 

Ozias, 323 

Patience (Foote), 348 

William. 348 
Braman, Rebecca A., 114 
Branch, Moses, 60 
Bray, Asa, 137. 152 
Brayton, Atwood Randall, 

Atwood Winslow, 50 
Caroline Estelle, 50 
Charles Edward, 50 
Charles Elias Davis, 50 
Charles Erskine, 50 
Charlott-e Estelle, 50 
Frances Almira, 50 
Frances Emmeline, 50 
George Ervine, 50 
Harriett Adelaide, 50 
Lucy Emmeline, 50 
Lulu Moore, 50 
Mary Ann ( Moore), 50 
Mary Lillian, 50 
Sarah Ann, 50 
Sarah Elizabeth, 50 
Sarah Maria (Davis), 2>3^ 
48. 147 
Brearley, Sallie, 94 



Brewster, Benjamin, 49 

Lucy, in 
Briggs, Ezra, in 

Alary (Tift), 112, 114, 115 

Sarah Elizabeth, 119 

Wanton, 114 
Brigham, Paul, 302 
Brockett, Capt., 335 
Brockway, Caroline, 310, 
3ii, 339 

Irene (Reed), 339 

John, 311, 339 
Bronson, Hannah (Porter), 

3-29 

Joseph, 311, 329 

AJaria, 310, 311, 329 
Brooks, Joseph, 219 
Brown, Ann Maria (Noyes), 
45 

Charles S., 202 

Grace Sophia, 202 

Harry Hinman, 202 

John. 18. 133 

Joseph, 42 

Julia M. (Pulford), 202 

Nathaniel A., 72 

Robert, 45 

Sally (Loring), 72 

Sarah, 42 
Brownell, Abigail Foote, 349 

Annie (Wentz), 349 

Bishop, 293 

Carl Reed, 349 

Charles E., 349 

Charles Howe, 349 

Edward A., 349 

Edward Cole, 349 

Elizabeth M. (Reed), 349 

George Loomis, 349, 351 

Helen. 349 

Leila J. (Alexander), 349 

Leroy, 349 

Margaret, 349 

Alary Hammond, 349 

Roger Wentz, 349 

Sylvia Judd, 349 
Browning, Lucretia, 171 
Buck, Betsey (Root), 136 

Chauncy, 136 
Buddington. Esther, 119 

Jerusha, 145 
Bulklev. Edward. 204 

Rebekah W. P., 87 
Bull, Aaron, 164 

Caleb. 163 



37 2 



INDEX. 



Bull, Sarah, 164 

Thomas, 292 
Bunnell, Capt., 327 
Burbeck, Abigail (Webb), 
168 

Charlotte Augusta, 165-8 

Henry, 165-8 

Henry A., 168 

Henry William, 168 

John Cathcart. 168 

Mary Elizabeth, 168 

Susan H, 168 

William Henry, 168 
Burdick, Anne (Sisson), 122 

Elnathan, 122 

Henry (Stanton), 119 

Martha A. (Wheeler), 119 

Olive, 118, 119, 122 

Robert, 122 

Ruth (Hubbard), 122 
Burgoyne, 70, 254, 255, 268 
Burnap, Achsa, 299 

Anna Hale, 297-9, 300 

Asa, 299 

Candace, 299 

Candace (Bliss), 299 

Ganis, 299 

Ira, 299 

John, 297, 299, 300 

John L., 299 

Lucy, 299 

Orphar, 299 

Sophia, 299 

Uzziah, 299 
Burns, Mary E., 297 

Mary Elizabeth, 302 

William, 297, 302 
Burr, Jonathan, 80, 81 

Sarah. 80, 81 

Sarah (Redfield), 80, 81 
Burritt, Anthony, 200 
Burrows, Amos, 112 

Elisha, 109, 112 

Elizabeth (Rathbone), 112 

Eunice, 112 

Hubbard, 109, 112 

Silas, 112, 113 
Burton, Richard, 24 
Bush, Bathsheba (Dodge), 

341 
Fenner, 342 
Busicott, Mary, 41 
Butler, Almira (Hunting), 
227, 247-9 
Amos, 249 



Butler, Caroline Rebecca, 
249 

Ephraim, 249 

H. Maria, 249 

Reuben, 249 

Reuben Little, 249 

Sarah Elizabeth, 249 

Susan Almira, 249 

William Henry, 249 

Zebulon, 101 
Button, Bedotha Pierpont, 
310, 317, 318 

Maria L. (Pinto), 181 

Newbury, 311 

Stephen Decatur, 1S1 
Butts, Phoebe, 41 

Cadwell, Daniel, 257 

Jerusha, 347 

John, 348 
Calder, Charles Granville, 
276 

Edward Eddy, 276 

Ella A. T. (Elsbree), 276 

Florence N. (Williams), 
276 

Heman Lincoln, 276 

Jennie M. (Purrington), 
276 

John Barnard, 276 

Julia (Eddy), 269-276 

Lizzie O. (Goodrich), 276 

Louis Herbert, 276 

Mary A. (Phillips), 276 

Mary Adelaide, 276 

Sarah M. (Randall), 276 

William James, 276 
Caldwell, Henry, 168 

Lucy E. (Rudd), 168 
Cameron, Mabel Ward, 260 
Candee, Betsey (Perkins), 
289 

Caleb, 289, 290 

Caroline (Judson), 289 

Charles, 289 

Daniel, 289 

Enos, 289 

Esther, 290 

Hannah, 12 

Horace, 289 

Jane C. (Tomlinson), 289 

Job, 175, 287, 289, 290 

Laura, 290 

Leverett, 289 

Lois (Mallory), 289 



Candee, Nehemiah, 290 

Roxy, 290 

Sarah, 288, 290 

Sarah (Benham), 289, 290 

Sarah E., 290 
Canfield, Col., 335 

Samuel, 70, 175 
Capner, Hugh, 93 

Matilda (Anderson), 93 
Capwell, Eseck, 114 

Nancy (Tift), 114 

Sally (Tift), in, 114 

William, 114 
Carleton, Guy, 168 
Carlyle, Thomas, 303 
Carmichael, A. J., 259 

Marcia L. (Pierce), 259 
Carpenter, Edna (Way), 125 

Roswell, 125 

Zeruah, 158, 325 
Carter, Asahel, 143 

Elihu, 131, 141-3 

Eunice A. (Pond), 143 

Hopkins, 143 

Jacob, 141 

Jennette, 131, 140-4 

Jennette (Curtiss), 143 

Jerusha L. (Doane), 227 
245, 246 

Mary, 143 

Mary A. (Clark), 143 

Mercy, 143 

Mercy (Scott), 143 

Phila (Frisbie), 143 

Sarah, 229 

Sarah (Hopkins), 143 
Case, Cushman Hartley, 350 

Harriet (Hale), 285 

Helen A. (Bliss), 350 

Job, 20 
Casey, Mrs. Joseph K., 276 
Castle, Andrew, 13 

Frank E., 14 

Phebe (Kimberly), 1, 11- 

14 
Caswel. Flora D., 98 
Caswell, Caroline, 171 
Catlin, Charles, 342 
Chadwick, Caroline, 263 
Chaffee, Adna R., 314 
Champion, Capt., 359 

Susan, 174 
Champlin, Margaret, 43 
Chapman, Francina, 41 

Mercy, 39, 41 



!\l)k\. 



373 



Chapman, Mercy (Stod- 
dard), 40 

Ruth, 54 

Samuel, 173 

William, 41 
Charles I, 157 
Cheney, Alice Durritt, 223, 

225 
Chesebrough, Amelia, 119 

Elisha, 53 

Mary, 53 

Mary (Miner), 53 

Sophia P., 119 
Chester, John, 73 
Chew, Alice, 176 
Chickering, Maria, 263 
Childs, Abigail, 93 
Chipman, Phebe (Tift), 114 

Samuel, 114 
Christopher, Elizabeth, 173, 

174 

Peter, 173 
Churchill, Daniel, 356 

Jesse, 219 
Clark, Capt., 220 

Caroline A., 174 

Caroline (Holt), 165, 173, 

174 
Caroline Way, 123-6 
Charles H., 174 
Chauncey, 361 
Daniel, 345, 353-8 
David, 345, 353, 361, 362 
Deborah, 361 

Elijah, 345, 353, 355-8, 361 
Emilia, 361 
Emilia Adaline, 353 
Emmeline (Moore), 128 
Enoch Douglass, 174 
Eunice (Griffith), 352, 353, 

360 
Frederick A., 174 
Henry, 259 
Jane E., 174 
Jennie (Bradley), 329 
Jerusha, 361 

Jerusha (Hall), 360, 361 
John, 353, 360 
Joseph, 122 
Julius A., 174 
Leverett, 128 

Lizzie J. (Williams), 126 
Margaret (Cook), 174 
Mary, 126 
Mary A., 143, 174 



Clark, Mary A. (Pierce), 259 

Mary Esther, 361 

Mary Josephine, 103 

Mehitable (Hubbard), 360 

Molly, 335 

Philo, 354 

Polly (Hubbard), 361 

Rebecca (Patt), 174 

Robert E., 174 

Sarah, 126 

Sarah M., 231 

Sevilla L. (Pierce), 259 

Sidney M., 329 

Simeon, 127 

Stephen, 355 

Susan (Champion), 174 

Thomas R., 126 

Urania, 181 

W. T., 2ir 

William Sheldon, 125 

Zilpah (Griffith), 361 
Clarke, Daniel, 275 

Daniel, 275 

Edgar. 04 

Maria (Eddy), 275 

Mary C. (Exton), 94 

Rebecca, 43 

Ruth (Langdon), 229 

Sarah, 229 

Stephen, 229 
Clay, Bethiah, 365 

Henry, 334 

Stephen, 365 
Cleveland, Charles M., 161, 
164 

G rover, 203 

James C, 164 

Mary Augusta (Steele), 
155. 161-4 

Philenda (Miller), 164 
Cloes, Charles, 311, 344 

Hannah (Whitney), 344 

Nancy, 310, 311, 344 
Clough, Obadiah, 96 
Coates, Catherine, 59 
Codding, Irene H. W, 202 

Joel Hinman, 201 
Coddington, William, 42 
Coe, Frances, 327 
Cole, Matthew, 152 

Nicholas, 272 
Coles, Betsev. 188 
Coley, Sally" 87 
Collins Mary (Denison), 119 
Colton, Charles, 253,254,257 



Colton, Erastus, 12 
Comins, Harriet P. (Exton), 

94 

John E., 94 
Comstock, Samuel, 214 
Conant, Delos, 74 

Ellen A. (Snow), 74 
Conde, Zaccheus, 289 
Congdon, Eleanor (For- 
syth), 171 

Elisha, 171 
Converse, Huldah, 176 
Cook, Col., 265 

Esther, 153 

Gideon, 357 

Isaac, 335 

Margaret, 174 
Cooley, George, 311, 337 

Mabel, 310, 311, 337 

Mary, 221 

Minnie Pomeroy, 72 

Penelope (Rumsill), 337 

William, 267, 268 
Coolidge, Elizabeth, 249 
Cooper, Tacy, 122 
Corey, Elizabeth, 115 

Hiram D., 115 

Mary E. (Starr), 115 

Permelia, 115 
Cornwallis, Lord Charles, 
118, 141, 185, 197, 198, 
210. 235, 245, 329, 333 
Couch, Abigail, 81 

Charles, 225 

David, 225 

Emma, 225 

Jemima, 225 

Jerome, 225 

John, 225 

Lura, 225 

Lydia (Alexander), 217, 
219, 225 

Mary, 225 

Stephen, 219 

Walter, 225 
Covelle, Elijah, 285 

Mary Jane, 285 
Crane, John, 97, 225, 366 
Crapo, Patience, 233 
Crissey, Aurelia D. (Ray- 
mond), 146 

Charles, 145-7 

Ellen A. Barnes, 146 

Harriet (Reid), 131, 145- 
7, 154- 



374 



INDEX. 



Crissey, James Walter, 146 

Julius, 146 

Mary I. (Abbott), 146 

Selina (Woodruff), 146 
Crocker, Eunice, 125 
Crowley, Helen M., 322 
Crumb, Eunice, 113 

Eunice B. (Tift), 114 

Joseph, 114 
Cummings, Eleanor (Howe), 
1/8 

Hannah (Howe), 178 

Marvin, 176 

Noah, 176 
Cunningham, Dr., 191 
Curtis, Adelaide, 318 

Alfred, 327 

Bedotha P. (Button), 310, 
311, 317, 318 

Celia, 318 

Emeline (Bradley), 327 

Lemuel J., 318 

Sarah, 194, 201, 202 
Curtiss, Jennette, 143 
Cushing, Hannah (Phillips), 

313 
William, 313 

Daggett, Naphthali, 180, 181 

Damon, Edward, 366 

Dart, Mary Ann (Lucas), 

227, 243. 244 
Davenport, John, 149, 347 
Davidson, Andrew, 267 
Davis, Amos Palmer, 63 

David, 3^ 

Ellen Rigby, 65 

Emma Ann, 63 

Eunice (Palmer), 57-64 

Frank Biddle, 61, 63 

Mrs. John D.. 249 

Jonathan, ^^ 

Joshua, ^^ 

Lucy (Dewey), 50 

Martha (Howland), 102 

Martin, 62 

Peter, 49 

Samuel, 49, 50. 174 

Sarah Maria, t,^, 50, 147 
de Gfasse, Count. 1 c8 
Deming, Bethiah (Clay), 365 

Edmund, 345, 365, 366 

Lydia, 348 

Mary Jane, 345. 365, 366 

Roxy ( Galpin ). 106 



Denison, Ann (Borodel), 53, 

59 

Borodel, 53 

F., 124 

George, 53, 59 

Mary, 119 
Deshon, Richard, 169 
Dewey, Champlin, 114 

Lucy, 50 

Lucy (Tift), 114 
Dexter, Jesse, 98 

Lydia (Green), 98 
Dibble, Frances (Howland), 
103 

John, 191 

Lydia (Ferry), 191 

Miriam, 191 

William, 103 
Dickens, Charles, 321 
Dickins, Lois Bradford, 45 
Dike, Nicholas, 17 
Dimon, Jonathan, 79, 88 
Doane, Curtis, 245 

Jason, 245 

Jemima Matilda, 227 

Jerusha L'Hommedieu. 227. 
245, 246 

Joel, 227. 245 

Lydia (Stannard), 245 
Dodge, Bathsheba, 341 
Doolittle, Abigail, ^27 

Ichabod. 331 
Dorchester, Mabel, 225 
Douglas, Col., ^27 
Dowd, Charles, 342 

Delia, 112 

Delia Clark (Murdock), 
3 to. 311, 340, 341, 342 

Edwin, 342 

Henry, 342 

Zina, 342 
Downs, Hannah, 12 
Drown, Lydia, 181 
Dryden, John, 42 
Dryer, Henry, 126 

Mary (Clark). 126 
Dunham, Charles C, 231 

Chauncey, 229-31 

Ermina S. (Andrews), 231 

George, 231 

Giles L., 231 

Isabella B., 231 

Isabella (Bradley), 23 r 

Jane (Strickland), 285 

Julia P.. 231 



Dunham, Julia (Piatt), 231 

Martha (Fuller), 231 

Mary J. (Johnson), 231 

Nancy A. (Robinson), 231 

Polly, 107 

Roberta (McLeod), 231 

Samuel, 231 

Sarah M. (Clark), 231 

Sylvia (Langdon), 227-^1 
Durfee, Mrs. Charles S., 319 
Durffee, Robert, 257 
Durkee, Capt, 281 

John, 325 
Dutton, Allen, 139 

Amos, 139 

Betsey, 139 

Emma, 131, 137-9 

Emma (Hawley), 139 

Georgianna (Quill), 139 

Irad, 139 

Julius, 139 

Lucy, 139 

Lucy (Langdon), 138, 139 

Sophia, 139 

Sylvester, 139 

Timothy, 131, 138, 139 
Dyer, Charles, 127 

Thomas, 325 

Eames, John, 257 

Polly (Swetland), 257 
Earle, Mary E., 283 
Eastman, Annis (Way), 188 

Sarah Bradley, 263 

Stoddard, 188 

Susannah, 122 
Eaton, Theophilus, 347 
Eddy, Abigail, 275 

Barnard. 269-75 

Betsey, 275 

Betsey (Walker), 275 

Edwin Barnard. 27^, 

Elizabeth, 272, 

Eunice, 275 

James Anthony, 275 

Jeremiah. 274. 275 

Julia, 269 

Julia G. (Westcott), 270 

Maria, 27^ 

Patience, 271, 274, 275 

Ruth Ann, 27^ 

Samuel, 273 

Sarah J. (Shaw), 275 

Sarah W. (Hathaway), 



INDEX. 



375 



Eddy, Stephen, 275 

Stephen Gano, 275 

Zachariah, 274 
Edson, Cyrus, 285 

Daniel, 176 

Julia Augusta, 285 

Lucinda (Howe), 178 

Pachard. 176 

Sally (Howe), 178 
Edwards, Capt., 335 

Augusta J. (Lum),292 

George, 292 
Elbridge, Elizabeth. 10 

Giles, 10 

Rebecca, 10 

Thomas, 10 
Elderkin, Vine, 331, 333 
Eldridge, Daniel, 53 

Lucv ( Stanton), 53 

Mary, 53 
Elliot, Joseph, 96 
Elmer, Kate L., 351, 364, 

366, 368 
Elmore. Samuel, 133, 186 
Elsbree, Ella A. I .. 276 
Ely, Clarissa, 348 

Levi, r8 
Emery, David Elliot, 299 

Sophia (Burnap),299 
Eno, Nellie E.. 23 

Nellie Goodrich, 19 
Enos, Roger, 27, 149, 152, 

239. 335 
Evans, 1 1. Clay, 294 

Mary. 03 

Mary < Anderson ), 93 

Samuel, 93 
Eveleth. Asa Whitcomb, 84 

Augusta ( McNeil), 84 

Henry Smith. 84 

James Whitcomb, 84 

Jane ( Smith ) , ". X2-4 

Marion Emily, 84 

Mary Elizabeth. 84 

Persis Jane, 84 

Sarah Ann, 84 

Sumner Smith. 84 
Everett, Joel S., 349 

Seraphina Haynes. 349 
Exton, Ann Maria, 94 

Christianna (Bird), 94 

Eleanor Allen, 94 

George Anderson, 94 

Harriet Provost, 94 

James Anderson. 94 



Exton, Lewis Anderson, 94 
Maria (Van Pelt), 94 
Mary Capner, 94 
Sallie ( Brearley), 94 
Sarah (Anderson), 91-4 
Sarah Skirm, 94 
Thomas, 93, 94 

Fairchild, Charles E., 290 

Ebenezer, 290 

Henry L., 290 

Mary J., 290 

Sarah (Candee), 288, 289 
Fanning, Anne Brewster, 57 
Farnham, Rebecca, 157 
Ferris, Col., 306 
Ferry, Esther, 348 

Lydia, 191 

O. S., 211 
Field, Edward, 276 
Filley, Anna, 27, 28 
Finch, Elizabeth L (Mc Al- 
pine), 310, 31 1, 338, 339 

James, 338 
Fiske, John, 22, 356, 358 
Fitch, Capt., 335 

Thomas, 44 
Foote. Abigail, 347, 348, 349 

Absalom, 348 

Asa, 348 

Betsey ( ( rates), 348 

Christina B. (Speor), 348 

Clarissa ( Ely ), 348 

Elizabeth ( Kimberly), 348 

Emily. 259 

Esther ( Ferry), 348 

Huldah, 348 ' 

Israel. 348 

Jerusha, 348 

Jerusha (Cadwell), 347 

Lucinda, 348 

Lucy (Brainerd), 348 

Mary. 348 

Nathaniel, 345, 347, 348, 

349 

Patience. 348 

Patience (Gates), 347 

Patience (Skinner), 348 
Force, Isaac, 126 

Sarah A., 126 

Sarah (Clark), 126 
Forsyth, Abigail (Lee), 171, 
172 

Anna, 171 

Augustus, 171 



Forsyth, Caroline (Caswell ), 
171 

Edmund, 171 

Eleanor, 171 

Eleanor Fox, 171 

Elisha, 171 

Esther, 171 

George, 171 

Gilbert, 169 

Hannah (Lester), 169 

Harriet, 165, 169-72 

Harriet E., 176 

Henry, 171 

James, 169 

Jane, 171 

Julia A. (Latham), 171 

Latham, 165, 169-72 

Lucretia (Browning), 171 

Maria, 171 

Nabygail, 171 

Noyes, 171 

Ruth, 169, 171 

Sanford, 171 

Sarah, 171 

Thomas, 171 

Timothy, 169 

William, 169 
Forsythe, Hannah, 114 
Foster, Abby Kelley, 263 

Abel, 311, 321, 322 

Adams, 263 

Adelaide, 264 

Alia W., 264 

Almira, 310, 311, 321, 322 

Asa, 251, 261, 263 

Asa Emerson, 263 

Benjamin, 321 

Caroline, 251, 261, 262, 264 

Caroline (Chadwick), 263 

I )a\ id Morrill, 263 

Eliza (Allison), 263 

Ellen ( French), 263 

Galen, 263 

Hannah, 263 

Harriet (Howland), 103 

Harrison, 263 

Judith, 261 

Larned, 321 

Lucy Wilson, 263 

Maria (Chickering), 263 

Mary ( Wood), 322 

Mehitable, 263 

Newell Abbott, 263 

Reginald. 201 

Sarah, 263 



376 

Foster, Sarah B. (Eastman), 
263 

Sarah B. Robertson, 263 

Sarah (Morrill), 263 

Stephen Symonds, 263 
Fowler, Betsey, 19 

Bildad, 15, 17, 18 

Caroline, 19 

Elisha, 15, 17 

Elizabeth. 17 

Elizabeth (Humaston), 19 

Emilia, 19 

Gamaliel, 19 

Jacob, 216 

Job, 15, 17 

John, 15, 17 

Julius, 18 

Mercy (Sykes), 18, 19 

Rachel (Hopkins), 17, 18 

Rachel Selina, 15-19 

Ruth (Fuller), 18 

Sally (Noble), 19 

Sarah ( Norton), 18 

Sophronia M. (Sessions), 
18 
Fox, Eleanor, 171 

Elizabeth (Holt), 174 

Elizabeth (Spicer), 33, 34, 
35. 36, 38 

Findley Morse, 40, 41 

Justina, 40 

Lester, T74 
Francis, Achsah (Howe), 
178 

James, 176 
Franklin, Gov., 342 
Freeman, Jim, 118 
French, Ellen, 263 
Frisbie. Ellen T., 176 

Phila, 143 

Sarah (Clarke), 229 

Sylvester, 229 
Fry, Col., 319 
Fuller, Martha, 231 

Ruth, 18 
Furman, Harriet, 87 

Gainford, Phoebe (Rock- 
well), 310, 311, 331-4 

William L.. 334 
Gains, Jonathan, 219 
Gallup, Annie, 96 

Nathan, 54 
Galpin, Roxy, 106, 107 
Gardiner, Asa Bird, 168 



INDEX. 

Gardiner, Benjamin W., 275 

Ruth A. (Eddy), 275 
Gardner, Deac, 356 

John, in 
Garrigus, J. H., 153 

Lizzie, 154 

Sophronia E. (Upson), 

153 
Garrison, William Lloyd, 264 
Gates, Betsey, 348 

Horatio, 70 

John, 343 

Mary (Spicer), 33, 34, 35, 
40, 41 

Noah, 40, 41 

Patience, 347 

Susannah, 348 
Gay, Col., 219, 220 

Fisher, 20, 200 

Thomas, 334 
Geer, Marietta S., 65 

Martha (Tyler), 41 

Mary, 41 

Robert, 41 
George III, 38, 148, 150 
Gerry, Ann, 10 

Ann (Thompson), 6, 7, 10 

Catharine, 10 

Catherine, 7 

Elbridge, 1-10 

Eleanor, Stanford, 10 

Eliza, 10 

Emily Louise, 1-10 

Hannah G. (Goelet). 10 

Helen Maria, 10 

James Thompson, 10 

Thomas, 3, 10 

Thomas Russell, 10 
Gibson, Eliza (Way). 188 

Rotus. 188 
Gifford. Elisha, 303, 305, 306, 
307 

Lodesca, 305 

Louisa J. (Knapp), 305 

Mary A. (Bennett), 305 

Nancy Ann, 303-307 

Polly (Washburn), 305 

Van Renssalaer, 305, 307 

Stephen, 305 

William, 305 
Gilbert, Nathan, 214 
Gildersheath, Rebecca, 236 
Gillet, Emily. 22 

Jonah, 20 
Gillette, Ralph. 171 






Gillette, Sarah (Forsyth), 

171 
Goelet, Hannah G, 10 
Goodrich, Lizzie Oriette, 276 
Goodsell, Elizabeth, 158 
Goodwin, Ann M. (Exton), 

94 

Horace, 84 

Landon R., 94 

Mary, 84 
Graham, Col., 338 

Morris, 243 
Grant, Billings, 74 

Clarissa, 74 

Elizabeth Jane, 74 

Hambleton, 173 

Hamilton, 73-75 

James Munroe, 74 

John, 74 

Lucy (Williams), 74 

Minerva, 67, 73-7^ 

Miranda, 74 

Nancy, 74 

Nelson. 74 
Graves. Lydia, 97, 98 

Mary Elizabeth. S3, 84 
Greaton, Col., 337 

John, 253, 254 
Green, Amos, 96 

Annie ( Gallup), 96 

Daniel, 98 

Esther ( Houghton), 98 

Hannah, 91, 96-98 

Harry, 96 

John, 96, 97, 98 

Joseph, 91, 96-98 

Kendal, 98 

Lydia, 98 

Lydia (Graves), 98 

Maranda (Talbot), 98 

Maranda (Wood), 98 

Alary (Payne), 98 

Nancy, 98 

Russell, 98 

Sallie (Whitmore), 98 

Timothy, 96, 98 
Greene, Nathaniel, 22, 141 
Greenleaf, Elizabeth. 10 

Enoch, 10 
Gregorv, Jabez, 209 

Mary S. (Wilson). 87 
Gridley, Hezekiah, 152 

Martha, 22 
Griffin, Capt., 357 
Griffith, Eunice. 353. 360, 362 



INDEX. 



377 



Griffith, Zilpah, 361 
Griswold, Abigail, 22 
Adah, 41 

Hadger, Joseph, 257 

Sevilla (Swetland), 257 
Hadley, Caroline (Pinto), 
181 

George Francis. 182 

JohiTR, 181, 182 

Thomas Jefferson, 182 
Hail, Sarah Patterson, 275 
Hale, Alexander, 285 

Ann Eliza, 285 

Annie (Strickland), 285 

Benjamin, 219 

Daniel, 285 

Harriet, 285 

John, 285 

Lucy, 285 

Seth, 285 

Vienna, 285 
Hall. Capt, 339 

Col.. 343 

Benjamin, 237 

Caroline (Tredway), 237 

Elbert, 237 

Eli, 201 

Frances, 301 

Gloson, 237 

Irena (Hinman), 201 

Jedediah. 201 

Jerusha, 360, 361 

Lydia A. (Bartholomew), 

237 

Martha (Todd). 237 

Mary. 237, 249 

Mary (Todd), 227, 234- 

237 

Orrin. 237 

Sally (Hinman). 201 
Hamilton. Fanny. 181 
Hancock, Col., 4 

Abel, 257 

Abigail (Terry), 257 

Abner, 257 

Eunice (Parsons), 257 

Hannah (Long), 257 

Jabez, 257, 258 

John. 257 

Moses, 257 

Oliver, 257 

Rachel (Wright), 258 

Rosanna, 257 

William, 257 



Hancock, Zacharia, 257 
Hanford, Deborah (Hoyt), 
210 

Grace, 210 

Hez'ekiah, 207. 210 
Hardin, Seth, 3S 
Harrenton, Joseph, 98 

Nancy (Green), 98 
Harris, Jane, 174 
Harrison, Harriet (Pinto), 
181 

Leonard, 153 

Lucy (Johnson), 153 
Hart, Lucy, 229 

Mary P., 139 
Hathaway, Sarah Wheaton, 

275 
Hawley, Emma, 139 
Haynes, Seraphina, 349 
Haywood, Emily (How- 
land), 103 
Heath, Col., 101 

Gen., 278 
Hickox. Mary. 143 
Higgins, Edwin, 144 

Harriet, 143. 144, 154 

Jennette C, 144 

Jennette (Carter), 131, 
140-4 

Laura A., 144 

Louise Y. (Blakeslee), 144 

Lucius H. 144 

Mary, 144 

Timothy, 142, 144 
Hill, Ebenezer, 88 
Hills. Mrs. Henry, 222 

William, 19 
Hinkley. Jane (Forsyth), 171 

Russell, 171 
Hinman, Albert, 201 

Anna. 201 

Asa. 199 

Benjamin. 186, 187, 195, 
198, 199, 202 

Bethuel, 199 

Curtis, 200, 201 

Daniel, 201 

Elijah. 199 

Enos, 199 

Francis, 199 

Irena, 201 

Isaac, 199 

Jason, 201 

Joel, 194-202 

John, 199 



Hinman, Josiah, 199 

Justus, 199 

Lucy (Robinson), 201 

Maria, 187, 195, 201, 202 

Maria (Scovill), 201 

Marietta, 201 

Nancy, 201 

Phebe, 201 

Robert, 201 

Royal R., 200 

Sally, 201 

Sally (Perry), 201 

Sarah, 201, 202 

Sarah (Curtis), 194, 201, 
202 

Sherman, 201 

Sophia, 201 

Susan S. (Wheeler), 201 
Hobart, Bishop, 181 

David, 337 

Mabel (Cooley), 310, 311, 
336, 337 

Rebecca, 236 
Hobbs, Hepzibah, 95 
Hobby, John, 337 
Hodge, Amanda, 266 

Asenath, 266 

Aurelia, 266 

Betsy Polly, 266 

Charlotte, 266 

Chauncey, 266 

Eunice, 266 

Justin, 266 

Ketura (Armstrong), 266 

Lucretia, 266 

Lucy, 266 

Lucy (Newton), 266 

Philo, 251, 265, 266 

Philo Newton, 266 

Samantha, 266 

Sarah, 266 

Statira, 251, 265, 266 

Susan, 266 
ITolden, Edward, 128 

Justin. 128 

Lydia W. (Moore), 123, 
127-9 

Maria Dudley, 128 

Walter, T28 
Hollister, Aaron, 221 

Alfred Wright, 280 

Amos, 278 

Asenath, 221 

Asenath (Sweetland), 219, 
221 



378 



INDEX. 



Hollister, Augusta Wells, 

280 
Caroline M. (Hubbard), 

221 
Caroline (Van Vechten), 

280 
Chester, 278-80 
Dency, 221 
Eleazur, 221 
Emeline (Noble), 269, 

277-80 
Frances Noble, 280 
Grove, 221 
Hannah, 221 
Harriet, 217, 219, 221 
Harriet (Noble), 279 
Henrietta Lucy, 280 
Horace, 221 
Josiah, 217, 219, 220 
Julia E. (Newton), 280 
Lucy (Wells) Noble, 27X 
Martha (Wallace), 221 
Mary, 217-23 
Mary (Cooley), 221 
Mary (House), 220 
Orrin, 221 
Phoebe ( Rich), 221 
Pierpont, 221 
Rebecca C. (Rich), 221 
Rhoda (Wallace), 221 
Ruth P. (Rich), 221 
Wadsworth, 279, 280 
Holly, David S., 308 
Emeline, 308 
Fanny (Thompson), 308 
John, 303, 308 
Lucretia, 303, 308, 309 
Nancy, 308 

Nancy M. (Hoyt), 308 
Rebecca, 308 
William, 308 
Holmes. Eliphalet, 147 
Emily M. (Wheeler), 119 
Frank, 285 
Hannah, 118, 122 
John, 118, 122 
Julia Augusta, 285 
Martha (Stanton), 118 
Seth W., 173 
Thomas W.. 119 
Holt. Abby, 177. 183-5 
Abby Starr. 174 
Abigail ( Stanton), 183 
Caroline. 173, 174 
Christopher, 174 



Holt, Ebenezer, 165, 173, 174 
Elizabeth, 174 
Elizabeth (Christopher), 

173,. 1/4 

Francis, William, 174 

Jane (Harris), 174 

Joanna, 174 

John C. 174 

Lucretia, 174 

Mary Mumford, 174 

Nathaniel, 177, 183 
Hooker, Col., 335 

Noadiah, 137, 153 

Roger, 137 
Hopkins, Isaac, 143 

Jonathan, 19, 174 

Lois (Richards), 143 

Rachel, 17, 19 

Rachel Adams (Sykes), 

19 

Sarah, 143 

Simeon, 143 
Hoskins, Shubal, 22 
Hotchkiss, Amos, 239, 335 

Daniel, 235 

Edwin P., 144 

Lillian, 259 

Lucy (Todd), 235 

Mary (Higgins), 144 
Houghton, Esther, 98 

Mary (Pardee), 229 
House, Daniel, 220 

Mary, 220 
Hovey, Sophia, 107 
Howard, Benjamin, 219 
Howd, John, 143 

Mercy (Carter), 143 
Howe, Achsah, 176 

Asa, 176 

Asenath, 165, 175, 176 

Betsey, 176 

Dabford, 176 

Eleanor, 176 

Eli, 176' 

Hannah, 176 

Hannah (Washburn), 175— 
176 

Huldah (Converse), 178 

Israel, 165, 175, 176 

Lucinda, 176 

Mary (Johnson), 178 

Parley, 176 

Polly. 176 

Rhoda (Strond), 176 

Sally, 176 



Howland, Ann Eliza, 102 

Emily, 103 

Frances, 103 

George, 102 

Harriet, 103 

Martha, 102 

Mary, 103 

Minerva (Blake), 99-103 

William, 102 
Hoxsey, Gideon, 45 
Hoxsie, Martha. 43 
Hoyt, Deborah, 210 

Nancy M., 308 

Rhoda, 213 
Hubbard, Abby (Bradley), 

327, 

Caroline M., 221 

Daniel, 323 

Lucy, 323 

Mehitable, 360 

Polly, 361 

Ruth. 122 

Samuel, 122 

Tacy ( Cooper), 122 

Walter, 327 
Hubbell, Caroline (Pinto), 
177-82 

Carrie. 182 

Carrie Lauretta, 182 

Harvey. 181, 182 
Huestis, Ella (Warren), 307 

.Maugham, 307 
Hull, Antoinette, 154 

Elizabeth (Ives), 151 

Freelove (Palmer), 62 

Samuel T... 151 

Thomas. 62 
Humaston, Elizabeth, 19 
Humphreys, David, 101 
Hunting. Almira, 227, 247-9 

Amos. 227, 247-9 

Anna, 249 

Betsey, 248 

Ebenezer N., 249 

Elizabeth ( Cool idge), 249 

Lydia, 24S 

Melinda ( Smith), 249 

Nathan, 249 

Olive. 248 

Olive (Newell), 248 

Rebecca, 248 

Reuben, 249 

Sarah, 249 

Sarah ( Lamphrey), 249 
Huntington. Ebenezer, 38 



INDEX. 



379 



Huntington, Eunice, 203 

Helen E., 205 

Hezekiah, 70, 175 

Jedecliah, 62, 158 

Joseph, 60 

Joshua, 62, 147 

Samuel, 201 

William, 35 
Hurd, George, 188 

Sally (Way), 188 
Hurlburt, Hepzibah (Way), 
188 

Solomon, 188 
Hutchins, Joshua, 334 
Hutchinson, Ann M. (An- 
derson), 93 

Anne. 42 

Elijah. 93 
Hyde (Adeline Allen), 81 

Arete, 81 

Arete (Jesup), 79, 81 

Arthur A.. 283 

Clarissa, 229 

Ebenezer, 81 

Edward, 81 

Eleanor, 80, 81 

Empson Bird, 283 

Fanny Ellsworth, 283 

Harriet L. (Adams), 81 

Humphrey, 77 

John, 79, 81 

John Sherwood, 80, 81 

Joseph, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80, 81 

Louisa, 80 

Louisa (Bird), 283 

Mary Augusta, 77, 80, 81 

Miranda, 81 

Oliver Thompson, 283 

Rachel, Si 

Samuel. 80, 81 

Sarah ( Burr), 81 

William Swift, 80, Si 

Ives, Rev.. 302 
Betsey (Payne), 131, 140- 

151 
Betsy, 335 
Charlotte, 335 
Elizabeth, 151 
Ichabod. 311, 335 
Isaac, 335 
Julia. 335 
Laura, 335 
Lodemy, 335 
Maria. 310, 311. 335 



Ives, Mary, 335 
Miles, 535 
Molly (Clark), 335 
Polly, 335 
Silas, 151 

Jackson, Jessie Carolena, 
280, 283, 285 

Jessie K. (Anthony), 276 

Rebecca, 59 
Jacobs, Luther, 98 

Phebe J. (Robbins), 98 

Phoebe K. (Jacobs), 98 
James, Julia A. Dubois, 290, 

293 
Jarvis, Isaac, 88 
Jaycox, Emma (Warren), 

307 
J. Willard, 307 
Jeffereys, Luretta, 119 
Jeffreys, Sevilla (Swetland), 

Thomas, 257 
Jeffries, David, 135 
Jeralds, Betsey (Parker), 
227, 238-42 

Thomas, 242 
Tessep, Edward, 79 

Sarah (Wright), 81 
Jessey, Jane, 366 

Kate, 366 

Mary, 366 
Jessup, Arete, 79 

Ebenezer, 77, 79 
Jesup, Arete, 81 

Ebenezer, 81 

Edward. Si 

Eleanor (Andrews), 81 
Johnson, Capt.. 335 

Cordelia, 153 

Hannah (Sutliff), 153 

I luldah. 153 

Huldah (Beecher), 153 

Irene. 153 

Isaac. 201 

Julius, 153 

Leverett, 153 

Levi. T31. 137, 152-4 

Lois. 131, 152, 153 

Lucy. 153 

Marietta ( I tinman). 201 

Mary. 176 

Mary J., 231 

Merilla, 153 

Nancy, 153 



Johnson, Obadiah, 60, 173 

Ruth (Judd), 152, 153 

Salmon, 153 

Sylvia, 153 
Jones, Elias, 171 

Gladys, 350 

Ruth (Forsyth), 171 
Joslyn, Elisabeth, 98 
Judd, Betsey (Dutton), 139 

Daniel, 359, 360 

Ephraim, 359 

Ruth, 153 

Seth, 139 

Urania (Knapp), 192 

William, 133, 329 
Judson, Caroline, 289 

Kasson, Mr., 315 
Keeler, Charlotte, 207, 212- 
216 

Frances Lydia, 215 

1 [ittabelle (Rockwell), 213 

Isaac, 213 

James Lockwood, 213 

Jehu. 213-16 

John. 213, 214 

Justus, 207, 2I3-l6 

Lyddia, 213 

Lydia (Lockwood), 213- 
216 

Martha. 213 

Ralph. 213 

Rhoda ( Hoyt), 213 

Sarah ( Whelpley), 213 

Stephen, 213 
Keep, Elizabeth (Benton"), 
28, 29 

Heber, 28 
Kelley, Abby. 263 
Kellogg, Eliza (Noble), 279 

George, 279 

Xaltygail (Forsyth), 171 

Ruth (Forsyth). 171 
Kempton, Thomas. 233 
Kendall, Jonas C. 301 

Marcia L. ( Pierce), 301 
Kent, Helen Manning. 98 
Kenyon, Joseph Denison, 45 

Lydia R. ( Noyes), 45 

Peleg, 45 

Susan ( Noyes), 45 
Kerr, James, 309 

Lucretia (Holly). 308, 309 

Sarah 309 
Keyes, Arthur I [yde, 283 



3 8o 



INDEX. 



Keyes, Fanny E. (Hyde), 
283 

James D.. 283 
Kibby, A., 168 

Susan H. (Bnrbeck), 168 
Kilbourn, E. B., 154 
Kilburn, Eliphalet, 263 

Mebitable (Foster), 263 
Kilfer, Caroline, 338 
Kimberly, Angeline, 12 

Charles, 13 

Cynthia, 12 

Dewitt, 13 

Elizabeth, 348 

Ezra, 1-14 

George, 13 

Hannah, 12 

Hannah (Candee), 11 

Hannah (Downs), 11 

Israel, n, 12 

Lucretia, 1, 11-14 

Mary, 12 

Mary (Tolles), n 

Morris, 12 

Nathaniel, II, 12 

Phebe, 1, 11-14 

Phebe (Bradley), 12 

Roderick, 12 

Sophia, 12 

Thomas, 11, 12, 327 
Kimble, John, 334 

Phoebe (Rockwell), 334 
King, Anna L. (Benton), 
28, 31 

Helen M., 301, 302 
Kinglev. Abigail (Palmer), 
61 

Elizabeth, 61 
Kingman, Mrs. A. ('.., 10 
Kingsley, Eunice (Spicer), 

41 

John D., 41 
Kinne, Aaron, 32, 55 
Knapp, Louisa J., 305 

Urania, 192 
Knowlton, 158, 159 

Anna Parkhurst, 269, 281- 
283 

Betsey (Noonan), 281 

Laura, 281 

Thomas, 73 

William, 269, 281, 283 

Lafayette, 11 1, 197, 317, 331, 
334 



Laimbeer, Augusta L. (Pin- 
to), 181-2 

Jessie, 1S1 

John, 181 
Lake, Capt., 306 

Mrs. Walter, 188 
Lamb, Samuel, 299 
Lamphrey, Sarah, 249 
Langdon, Catherine, 229 

Charles C, 229 

Clarissa (Hyde), 229 

Dwight, 229 

Eliza (Moore), 229 

Emma A. (Pardee), 229 

Giles, 226-231 

Giles N., 229 

Hannah (Lewis), 229 

Levi, 229 

Lucy, 138 

Lucy (Hart), 229 

Margaret A. (Moffitt), 229 

Mary (Pardee), 229 

Minerva (Upson), 229 

Perry, 229 

Ruth, 229 

Ruth (Andrews), 229 

Sarah, 229 

Sarah (Carter). 229 

Sarah (Clarke), Frisbie, 
229 

Sylvia, 227-231 
Lansdale, Capt., 344 
Larcom, Lucy, 322 
Larned, Daniel, 96, 97 

Ellen D., 96 
Latham, Julia A., 171 
Latimer, Jonathan, 70 
Lawrence, Mary (Reed), 309 
Leavenworth, Eli, 179 
Ledyard, Col., 235, 339 
Lee, Abigail, 171 

Abigail (Thompson), 171 

Ann D. (Phillips), 310-15 

David, 313 

Edgecomb, 171 

Josephine, 313 
Leffingwell, Benajah, 62 
Leonard, Freelove S., 136 
Lester, Andrew, 169 

Hannah, 169 

Lydia (Bailey), 169 
Levins, Miss, 157 
Lewis, Arthur Patterson, 275 

Cyrus, 275 

David, 114 



Lewis, Edward, 275 

Elizabeth E. (Anthony), 

275 

Elizabeth Eddy, 275, 276 

Ellen Tuttle, 154 

Frank Nichols, 275 

George Hail, 275 

Hannah, 229 

Henry, 275 

Henry Anthony, 275 

James, 275 

John, 275 

Lemuel, 135, 136 

Lydia, 275 

Lydia (Tift), 114 

Mary, 275 

Mary (Carter), 143 

Merab, 135, 136 

Nathan, 143 

Richard Anthony, 275 

Sarah Abigail, 275 

Sarah P. (Hail), 27^ 

Thomas, 275 

Walter Gibbs, 275 
Lillie, Marion H, 176 
Lippitt, Christopher, 117 
Lockwood, Delia, 307 

Eliphalet, 210 

Lydia, 213-16 
Long, Hannah, 257 

W. R„ 211 
Loomis, Abigail (Foote), 

345-347, 349, 35 1 
Alfred Isham, 348, 349 
Alfred Israel, 350 
Caroline Buell, 350 
Charles Brownell, 350 
Chloe, 28 

Elizabeth (Benton). 30 
Elizabeth (McFadden), 

350 
Emeline Tracy, 350 
Emily H., 351 
Emily Harvey, 350 
George Champion, 349 
George Tracy, 350 
Gladys (Jones), 350 
Israel Foote, 350, 351 
Jane Clarissa, 349 
John Robbins, 350 
Josiah, 219 
Mary Abigail, 350 
Milton Lathrop, 350 
S. Emeline (Tracy), 350 
Lord, Anna, 53 



INDEX. 



38l 



Lord, Dorothy, 53, 59 

Thomas, 53, 59 
Loring, Abner Dunbar, 72 

Angelina, 67-72 

Angelina (Sawyer), 69, 
70, 72 

Elizabeth (Safford), 72 

Hannah, 72 

Harriet, 72 

Harriet A. (Moulton), 72 

Jane (Newcomb), 72 

Mary Ann (Adams), 72 

Mira (Sawyer), 69, 70, 72 

Nathaniel Hart, 72 

Sally, 72 

Samuel, 69, 70 

Solomon, 67-72 

Solomon Pitt, 72 

Susannah, 72 

Susannah (Whipple), 69, 
72 
Loveman, Capt., 134 
Lucas, Israel, 227, 243, 244 

Mabel (Bidwell), 244 

Mary Ann, 227, 243, 244 
Ludington, Capt., 306 
Ludlow, Roger, 161 
Lum, Augusta Justine, 292 

Augusta (Wooster), 287, 
291-293 

Clark, 292 

Ellen, 292 

John, 292 

Sarah, 292 
Lyon, Daniel, 158 

Mrs. Geo. W., 249 

Madison, James, 5 
Mallory, Lois, 289 
Manchester, Electa A., 310, 

311, 319 

Hannah (Tabor), 319 

Joseph, 311, 319 
Marcy. Reuben, 73 
Markham, Ambrose, 364 

Anna (Niles), 364 

Anna E. (Niles), 363 

Asenath, 364 

Betsy. 364 

Hiram. 364 

John, 345, 363. 364 

Laura. 364 

Laura Ann. 363 
Marsh, Abigail. 342 
Marshall. Eliakim, 28 



Marshall, John, 5 

Mary, 28 
Marvin, Mary, 267, 268 

Matthew, 209 

Sarah, 209 
Mason, Mary (Howland), 

103 
Mather, Increase, 321 

John, 279 

Julia (Noble), 279 
Matthews, Mayor, 342 
Mattison, Frances A. 
(Wheeler), 119 

Robert R., 119 
Maxwell, Julia Alice, 280 

Mary. 157 
Mayer, Mrs. William G., 260 
McAlpine, Capt., 338 

Caroline (Kilfer),338 

Elizabeth Lansing, 310, 
*"> 338 

John, 311, 338 

Simon, 338 
McChristie, Jessie C. (Jack- 
son), 280, 283, 285 
McClellan, Samuel, 159 
MacDonald, John, 350 

Mary A. (Loomis), 350 
McFadden, Elizabeth, 350 
McLean, Abigail (Strick- 
land). 367 

Allan, 19 

James, 345, ^67, 368 

Mary, 367 
McLeod, Roberta, 231 
McNeil, Augusta, 84 
McPherson, 199, 211 
Mead. Col., 343 

Elizabeth Sturgis, 107 

Hezekiah, 306 

John, 214 

Matthew, 152 

Sarah M., 107 
Meech, Ann, 41 
Meeker, Helen, 193 
Meigs, Return Jonathan, 

101. 106, 184, 242 
Miller, Philenda, 164 

Susan Brooks, 307, 309 
Milligan, Mrs. W. J., 334 
Mills, Sarah Marilla, 22 
Miner, Augusta, 119 

Ephraim, jji 

Grace (Palmer), 121 

Hannah (A very). 121 



Miner, Hannah (Hollister), 
221 

Luther, 128 

Mary, 53, 121 

Mary (Stevens), 121 

Nancy (Moore), 128 

Peregrine, 221 

Thomas, 121 
Minor. C. M., 186 

Electa (Way), 188 

Judson, 188 
Minot, J., 201 

Mitchell, Sophia (Hinman), 
201 

Truman, 201 
Moffit, Margaret A., 229 
Monroe, James, 7, 52 
Montgomery, Richard, 149 
Moody, Carleton Montague, 
275 

Elizabeth E. (Lewis), 
275, 276 
Moore, Bridget (Wells), 128 

Charles Tyler, 128 

Cyrus, 128 

David, 123, 127, 128 

Eliza, 229 

Eliza P., 128 

Emmeline, 128 

George, 128 

Hannah Tyler, 128 

John, 127 

Jordan, 128 

Keziah (Ames), 128 

Lydia Wheeler, 123, 127- 
129 

Mary, 128 

Mary Ann, 50 

Nancy, 128 

Sally, 128 

Sally (Prentis), 128 

Silas, 123, 127 
M< irgan, Daniel, 28 

Eliza, 28 

John, 268 

Mary E., 233 
Morley, Mary, 164 

Thomas, 219 
Morrill, Sarah, 263 
Morris, Eliza (Blake), 102 
Morse. Elizabeth, 41 
A I < iseley, h >lm, 17 

Prince. 354 
Mosely, Increase, 199 
Moser, Mrs. F. B., 115 



382 



INDEX. 



Moulton, Harriet A., 72 
Mulford, Elizabeth, 333 
Mumford, Abby, 313 
Munn, Reuben, 17 

Josiah, 148, 150 
Murdock, Bathsheba, 341 

Charles Elisha, 341 

Delia, 341, 342 

Delia Clark, 310, 311 

Elisha, 341 

John, 311, 341 

Peter, 311, 341 

William, 311, 341 
Murray, A. C, 313 
Muzzy, Florence E. D., 160 

Nash, Thomas, 78, 79 
Newcomb, Hannah (Lor- 
ing), 72 

Henry, 72 

Jane, 72 

Lydia Bolles, 10, 14 
Newell, Carlos P., 139 

Emma (Quill), 154 

Emma G. (Quill), 139 

Joseph K., 84 

Olive, 248 

Sarah A. (Eveleth), 84 
Newton, Cyrus, 41 

Julia Esther, 280 

Lucy, 266 
Nichols, Moses, 261 
Niles, Anna, 364 

Anna Esterbrook, 363 
Noble, Augusta W. (Hol- 
lister), 280 

Eliza, 279 

Emeline, 269, 277-9 

Gideon, 269, 277-9 

Harriet, 279 

Henry (Dutton), 280 

Julia, 279 

Louisa, 279 

Lucy (Wells), 277 

Sally, 19 

Thomas, 280 
deNoer, Princess, 313 
Noonan, Betsey, 281 
Northrop, Elizabeth, 158 
Northrup, Mary, 188 
Norton, Alice, 108 

Sarah, [8 

Serg., 357 
Noyes, Ann Maria, 45 

Anne (Parker), 42 



Noyes, Barbara (Wells), 43, 

46. 47 
Barker, 43 
Bridget, 122 
Dennison, 119 
Dorothy (Stanton), 47. 122 
Eliza. 45 
Elizabeth, 43, 47 
Elizabeth (Babcock), 43 
Elizabeth (Sanford). 42, 

43, 46, 122 
Eunice (Witter), 45 
Fanny (Wells), 43 
George Washington, 45, 46 
Grace, 43 

Grace (Billings), 46, 48 
James. 42-4, 46-8, 122 
Joseph, 33, 43, 44. 46. 47 
Joshua, 43 

Lois B. (Dickins), 45 
Lydia (Rogers), 43 
Martha Babcock (Noyes), 

33, 42, 43, 45, 46, 48, 122 
Margaret (Champlin), 42 
Mary, 43, 45-8 
Mary Ann, 45 
Nancy (Wells), 43 
Pel eg. 43 

Rebecca (Clarke), 43 
Sanford, 33, 43-46 
Sarah (Brown), 42 
Susan, 45 

Thomas, 33, 42, 43-48, 122 
William, 42, 122 
Nye, Elizabeth D. ( Wheeler) , 

119 
Stephen F., 119 

Ogden, David L., 154 

Mabel, 8s 

Moses, 89 

Samuel. 85 
Olmstead, Asa, 215 

Betty (Stuart), 215 

Charlotte, 215, 216 

Mrs. Edward, 216 
Orcutt, Horace, 176 

Polly (Howe), 178 
Orne, Joshua, 4 
Osborn. Capt, 141 

Abigail ( Marsh). 342 

Almeda. 342 

Amos, 257 

Eliada, 311, 342 

Elisha, 342 



Osborn, Ethan, 311, 342 

John, 311, 342 

Myron, 342 

Nathan, 342 

Rebecca, 310, 311, 342 

Rosanna (Swetland), 257 
Osborne, Amos O., 260 

Cynthia, 192 

Daniel, 192 

Elizabeth, 192 

Ira, 192 

Levi, 189-193 

Lucy M., 192 

Lucy Maria, 189-193 

Miriam (Dibble), 191 

Moses, 191 

Sarah, 102 

Sarah (White), 191 

White, 192 

Packard, Charles, 181 

Lauretta, 179, 181 

Lydia (Drown), 181 
Packer, Nelson G, 40, 41 

Rachel (Spicer), 33-35, 
40, 42 
Paddleford, Betsev (Howe), 
178 

James, 176 
Page, Catherine, 53 

Joseph, S3 

Lucy (Wheeler), 53 

Martha, 53 
Paine, Robert Treat, 4 
Painter, Capt., 141, 343 

Gamaliel. 141. 142 
Palmer, Abigail, 61 

Amos R., 62 

Ann, 59 

Anna (Forsyth), 171 

Benjamin, 57-64, 173 

Benjamin Woodworth, 62 

Betsey (Babcock), 62 

Catherine (Coates), 59 

Courtland, 62 

Eunice, 57-64 

Frances (Prentice). 59 

Freelove, 61, 62 ' 

Gershom, 59 

Grace, 121 

Hannah, 61. 62 

Hannah L. (Stanton). 59 

Hannah (Woodworth), 
61, 62 

Joseph, 59, 60 



INDEX. 



383 



Palmer, Julia Wells, 65 

Mary, 59 

Nehemiah, 59 

Noyes F., 65 

Phoebe, 57-64 

Rebecca (Short), 59 

Walter, 59, 121 
Pardee, Emma Ann, 229 

Mary, 229 
Park, Abijah, 41 

Elizabeth (Morse), 41 

Mary, 41 

Sarah, 41 
Parke, Dorothy (Thomp- 
son), 121 

Martha, 121 

Robert, 121 

Thomas, 121 
Parker, Adelaide (Curtis), 
3i8 

Anne, 42 

Aurilla, 74 

Betsey, 227, 238-48 

Charles, 241 

Clarissa, 241 

Edmund, 241 

Isabella, 241 

James, 335 

Joel, 241 

John, 241, 318 

Jonathan, 278 

Maria (Ives), 310, 311, 

335 

Mrs. Norman, 204 

Peter, 356 

Rebecca (Ray), 241 

Sarah, 241 

Sarah (Twiss), 241 

Stephen, 227, 239-42 

Ziri, 241 
Parks. Mary (Whiting), 53 
Parrott, Sally (Blake), 102 
Parsons, Almira, 268 

Alsop, 268 

Eunice, 257 

Ezra Marvin, 268 

Israel, 2=;t, 267. 268 

Israel Merick, 268 

Joseph, 268 

Marshfield, 268 

Mary ( Marvin), 267 

Marytta, 268 

Persee, 268 

Samuel Holden, 39, 125 

Susannah, 268 



Parsons, Tirzah Morgan, 

251, 267, 268 
Patt, Rebecca, 174 
Patten, Margaret, 74 
Payne, Betsey, 131, 151 

Elizabeth, 150 

Mary, 98 

Thomas, 131, 148-51 
Peck, Caleb, 139 

Hannah Keith, 231, 249 

Harriet, t,2J 

James, 149, 239 

Joseph, 335 

Lucy (Button), 139 

Patience, 1,27 
Peet, B. Frank, 84 

Mary E. (Eveleth), 83, 84 
Pendleton, Capt., 141 
Penfield, Silence, 285 

Susan, 285 
Perkins, A. F., 125 

Betsey, 289 

Hannah, 204 

Mary (Way), 125 

W. S. C, 124 
Perritt, Peter, 265 
Perry, Harriet (Banks), 87 

Sally, 201 

Walter, 87 
Pettibone, Jonathan, 20 
Phelps, Abigail, 20 

Almira, 119 

David, 15, 20, 22 

Electa, 22 

Eliza S., 301 

Elizabeth, 22 

Noah, 20 

Oliver, 268 

William Walter, 315 
Phillips, Abby (Murnford), 
3U 

Ann Duryee, 310-15 

Hannah, 313 

Mary, 313 

Mary Anna, 276 

Thompson, 311, 313 
Pierce, Albert Romanzo, 301 

Amos Fldridge. 259 

Anna H. Burnap, 297-301 

Benjamin Swetland, 259 

Catherine, 260 

Catherine Rosalie, 259 

Charles Nathan, 301 

Charles Reuben, 259 

Daniel King, 259 



Pierce, Eliza S. (Phelps), 
301 

Emily (Foote), 259 

Flora Louisa, 259 

Florida (Swetland), 251, 
253. 257, 259 

Frances (Hall), 301 

Franklin King, 259 

James Edward, 301 

Julia, 301 

Lillian (Hotchkiss), 259 

Lucia Anna. 301 

Marcia Laurette, 301 

Marcia Lovicy, 259 

Mary A. (Woodward), 
259 

Mary Andulasia, 259 

Mary Ella, 301 

Nathan, 299-301 

Reuben, 257, 259, 260 

Rosanna Osborn, 259 

Salina W. (Wiggins), 259 

Sarah (Raines), 259 

Sevilla Lucia, 259 
Pitkin, Charles E., 222 

John Jay, 222 

Joseph Chester, 221 

Mary, 222 

Alary (Hollister), 217-223 

Richard, 221 

Susan J. (Thomson), 222 
Pinckney, C. Charles, 5 
Pinto, Abraham, 177-180 

Alfred, 181 

Augusta Lauretta, 181, 182 

Caroline, 177-182 

Charles, 181 

Edwin, 181 

Fanny ( I familton), 181 

Francis Effingham, 181, 
182 

Harriet, 181 

I I "race, 181 

Jacob, 179 

Jessie (Laimbeer), 1S1 

Lauretta Packard, 179 

Maria Louise, 181 

Solomon, 177-1X0 

Urania (Clark). 1S1 

William, 177-9 
Piatt. Julia. 231 
Plumb. Mary, 102 
Pomen >v. I )aniel, 19 
Pond, Eunice Aurelia, 143 
Pi irter, Clarissa, 237 



3H 



INDEX. 



Porter, Elizabeth, 106 

Hannah, 329 

Preserved, 329 

Thomas, 127 
Potter, Anna Maria, 136 

Charles Albert, 136 

Joel, 135 

Lucretia, 136 

Martha (Bidwell), 136 

Nancy (Root), 131-6 

Samuel Martin, 136 

Stephen, 343 
Pratt, Caroline (Brockway), 
310, 311, 339 

Dency (Hollister), 221 

Henry E., 339 

Julius, 342 

Samuel, 221 
Prentice, Frances, 59 

Rebecca (Jackson), 59 

Thomas, 59 
Prentis, Sally, 128 
Prescott, Eliza Curtis, 267 
Presey, Alice, 10 
Prichard, Katherine, 202 
Prior, Jesse, 142 
Proudman, H. Maria, 248, 249 
Puffer, George, 176 

Lucinda (Howe), 178 
Pulford, Eliott, 201, 202 

Grace S., 200, 202 

Julia Maria, 202 

Maria (Hinman), 187, 
195, 201, 202 
Purrington, Jennie Medora, 

276 
Putnam, Israel, 22, 72, 96, 

239, 331, 366, 367 
Pyne, Esther (Way), 125 

James A., 125 

Quill, Emma (Dutton), 131, 

137-9 
Emma Gertrude, 139 
Emma Hawley, 139 
George, 139 
Georgiana, 139 
John Dutton, 139 
Joseph, 138, 139 
Joseph Dutton, 139 
Mary Jane, 139 
Mary P. Hart, 139 

Raines, Sarah, 259 
Randall, Sarah Melissa, 276 



Rathbone, Elizabeth, 112 
Ray, Benjamin Herbert, 64 

Courtland Palmer, 64 

Emmett S., 344 

Henry C, 62, 64 

Henry Gibson, 64 

Ida May, 64 

Joshua, 344 

Lucy Jane, 64 

Mary Emma, 64 

Myron, 344 

Nancy (Goes), 310, 311, 

344 

Phoebe Elizabeth, 64 

Phoebe (Palmer), 57-65 

Rebecca, 241, 242 

Phoebe Palmer, 57-65 

Rebecca, 241, 242 
Raymond, Aurelia D., 146 

Charlotte Agnes, 216 

Charlotte (Keeler), 207, 
212-16 

Charlotte (Olmstead), 216 

Finnetta (Banks), 87 

Frances Celia, 216 

Harriet Maria, 216 

Henry Merwin, 216 

Justus Keeler, 216 

Katharine Jane, 216 

Thomas Merwin, 216 
Redfield, Sarah, 81 
Reed, Asa, 147 

Elizabeth M., 349 

Emily (Slawson), 309 

Irene, 339 

James, 309 

Mary, 309 

Sarah Florence, 309 

Sarah (Kerr), 309 

Thaddeus, 309 

Wheeler, 349 
Reid, Asa, 131, 145, 147 

Harriet, 131, 145-7 

Jerusha (Buddington). 

145 
Reynolds, John, 122 
Rhodes, Abbie J, 95 

Charles N., 95 

Ellen L„ 95 

Emma, 95 

Fannie M., 95 

Franklin H., 95 

George B., 95 

Georgianna, 95 

Henry E., 95 



Rhodes, Hepsibah Maria 
(Smith), 91, 95 

Horatio Nelson, 95 

James S., 95 

Joseph G, 95 

Julia E., 95 

Sally A., 95 
Rich, Col., 319 

Amos, 324 

Anna Abell, 324 

Bernice, 324 

Denison, 324 

Elizabeth, 324 

Emeline, 324 

Herman, 324 

Leander, 324 

Lorenzo Dow, 324 

Marietta, 324 

Martha (Abell), 310, 311, 

323, 324 

Phoebe, 221 

Rebecca Carroll, 221 

Robert, 324 

Ruth P., 221 
Richards, Ada, 350 

Lois, 143 

Obadiah, 143 
Rider, Helen, 74 
Robbins, Abigail, 157 

Adaline, 98 

Alice, 157 

Almira (Whiting), 15S 

David Nelson, 98 

Ebenezer, 155-60, 311, 325 

Edwin, 158, 325 

Elisabeth (Joslyn), 98 

Elizabeth (Goodsell), 158 

Elizabeth L., 98 

Elizabeth (Northrop), 158 

Elmira J., 98 

Esther, 158, 310, 325 

Esther (Al worth), 158 

Esther (Stiles), 158 

Flora (Caswel), 98 

Hannah, 157 

Hannah (Green), 91, 96- 
98 

Hannah T., 98 

Ithiel, 97, 98 

Ithiel D., 98 

Jeremiah, 157 

John. 155, 157, 160 

John W., 98 

Joseph G., 98 

Julia A., 98 



INDEX. 



385 



Robbins, Luther D., 98 
Mary, 157. 158, 325 
Mar)- Ann. 98 
Mary Emily, 98 
Mary J., 1.SS-160, 325 
Alary (Maxwell). 157 
Mary ( Stearns ), 98 
Mary (Wallace). 158 
Nathaniel, 157, 160 
Nelson, [58, 325 
Olive, 157 
Patience, 157 
Phebe K., 98 
Rebecca, 157 

Rebecca (Farnham), 157 
Robert, 1^7 
Rufus, 155, 157, 158, 160, 

Solomon, 157 

Stephen, 98 

William A., 323 

William Alworth, 158 

Zadoc, 98 

Zeruah (Carpenter), 158, 

325 
Roberts, Emily Perkins, 164 

Mary Ann, 119 

Rebecca, 1 19 
Robertson, Sarah Bradley, 

263 
Robinson, Abner, 159 

Lucy. 201 

Nancy A., 231 

Timothy, 257 

William, 154 
Rochambeau, 1S4 
Rockwell, Mrs. C. L.. 344 

Elizabeth ( Mulford ), 333 

1 tittabelle, 213 

Jabez, 311, 330, 331, 333- 
334 

Mary Everest, 344 

Phebe, 310, 311 

Phoebe, 331, 334 

Sarah ( Rundel ). 333 
Rodgers. Jason A., 174 

Joanna (Holt), 174 
Rogers, Abijah, 236 

A mini, 236 

Anna. 343 

Edward. 200 

Eliphalet, 236 

Eunice (Way). 125 

Hobart, 236 

Irene, 236 



Rogers, Isaiah, 125 

John, 236 

Josiah, 236 

Lydia, 43- 45- 236 

Mary ( Nbyes ), 45, 46 

Orson C, 45 

.Mrs. Orson C, 48 

Rebecca (Gildersheath), 
236 

Rebecca (Hobart), 236 

Rufus, 236 

Thomas, 236 

Zabdiel, 62 
Root, Betsey, 136 

Elijah, 133 

Elisha, 134 

Emily, 136 

Freelove S. (Leonard), 
136 

I [ezekiah, 133 

James, 136 

Joel, 133 

John, 133 

Jonathan, 134 

Josiah, 130-6 

Laura, 136 

Llovd, 136 

Martha (Bidwell), 136 

Mary (Woodruff), 133 

Moses. 134 

Merab (Lewis), 134-6 

Nancy, 131-6 

Nathaniel Hunn, 131, 133 

Reuben Smith, 136 

Salmon, 133 

Samuel, 133, 134 

Thomas, 133 

William, 136 
Rose, Mary. 41 

Sarah, 41. 42 

Pel eg, 41 
Rowley, Nathan. 17 

Patience, 348 
Roys, Charles Augustus, 107 

Elizabeth S. (Mead), 107 

Emily Louisa, 107 

Emily (Savage), 90. 104- 
108 

Franklin, 107 

( reorge Franklin, 107 

Harriet Allene, T07 

Julia Maria, 107 

Sarah Mead. 107 
Rudd, Lucy E., c68 
Rumsill, Penelope, 337 



Rundel, Sarah, 333 
Russell, Rebecca, 10 
Samuel, 10 

Saffdrd, Elizabeth, 72 
Sage, Col., 278 

Comfort, 278 
St.John, Capt., 88 

Rosanna O. (Pierce), 259 

Sylvia, 309 

William W., 259 
Salisbury, Edward Elbridge, 
10 

Elbridge Gerry, 10 
Salmon, Charles R., 84 

.Marion E. (Eveleth), 84 
Saltonstall, Gurdon, 313 
Sanford, Bridget, 42 

David, 87 

Elizabeth, 42, 43, 46, 47, 
122 

Marietta (Banks), 87 

Mary, 274 

Peleg. 42 

Ruth, 290 
Savage, Benjamin, 107 

Betsey, 107 

Elisha, 99, 105 

Elizabeth (Porter), 106 

Emily, 99, 104-8 

Emily S. (Strickland). 
107 

Jamin, 107 

Laura, 107 

Polly (Dunham), 107 

Roxey (Galpin) Deming, 
106, 107 

Sarah M. (Mead), 107 

Selah, 99, 105-7 

Sophia (Hovey), 107 
Sawyer, Angelina, 69 

Azariah, 67, 69, 71, 175 

Mira, 6q. 72 

R. 11.. 211 
Saxton, Lucv (Smith), 161 

164 
Schuyler, Philip, 133,149, 198 
Scott, Angeline, 211, 216 

Mercy. 143 

Susan ( Wheeler 1, 2or 
Scovill, Maria. 20T 
Seeley, Polly (Blake), 102 
Seidell. Samuel, 39. 49. 147 
Selover, Henrietta L. (Hol- 
lister ). 280 



3 86 



INDEX. 



Selover, John Young, 280 
Sessions, Sophronia Met- 

calf, 18 
Seymour, Moses, 292 
Shattuck, Cvnthia (Swet- 
land), 257 

Ebenezer, 257 
Shaw, Sarah Jenks, 275 
Sheldon, Elisha, 292 
Shepard, Annie, 285 

John, 285 

Silence (Penfield), 285 
Shepherd, Jared, 105 

Jeremiah, 121 

Margaret (Borodell), 121 

Mary, 121 

Mary (Wainwright), 121 

Thomas, 121 
Sherburne, Henry, 184, 294 
Sherman, Daniel, 197 

Isaac, 302 

William T., 211 
Sherwood, Abigail (Couch), 
80, 81 

Edward, 81 

Edwin, 79, 80 

Edwin Hyde, 80, 81 

Hezekiah, 89 

Mabel (Banks), 89 

Mary Augusta (Hyde), 

77-81 
Matilda Meeker (Simp- 
son), 80, 81 
Polly A., 90 
Simon Couch, 80, 81 
William, 8o, 81 
Shipman, Col., 335 
Edward, 277 
F. H., 176 

Harriet (Blake), 102 
Short, Rebecca. 59 
Silliman, Gold Selleck, 79, 

88, 214 
Simmons, Electa A. (Man- 
chester), 319 
Emma Avery, 115 
Leander, 319 
Simpson, Matilda Meeker, 

81 
Sisson, Ann, 122 

Richard. 122 
Sizer, Capt., 141 

William, 97 
Skinner, Jerusha (Foote), 
348 



Skinner, Laura (Markham), 

364 
Laura Ann (Markham), 

345, 363 

Lucinda (Foote), 348 

Mary (Foote), 348 

Patience, 348 

Patience (Skinner), 348 

Richard, 348 

Samuel, 364 

Stephen, 348 
Skirm, Sarah, 93 
Slawson, Emily, 309 
Sloper, Ambrose, 152 
Smith, Alexander, 91, 95 

Benjamin, JJ, 82-4 

Chandler, 168 

Ebenezer, 161 

Elihu, 219 

Emily Goodrich. 205 

Frances Lincoln, 350 

Hannah (Weston), 161 

Harriet (Forsyth), 165, 
169-72 

Henry D., 144 

Hepzibah Maria, 91, 95 

Hepzibah (Smith), 95 

James, 257 

Jane, J7, 82-4 

Jennette C. (Higgins), 144 

Joseph, 19, 117, 291 

Laura (Savage), 107 

Lucy, 161 

Marcia (Swetland), 257 

Mary, 84, 122 

Mary E. (Burbeck), 168 

Mary E. (Graves), 83, 84 

Mary (Goodwin), 84 

Melinda, 240 

Nathaniel, 344 

Nehemiah. 122 

Noah, 107 

Oliver. 30 

Richard, 219 

Samuel, 344 

Samuel P., 171 

Samuel Prentice, 172 

Sumner. 84 

William Wirt, 260 
Snow, Andrew Wade. 74 

Aurilla (Parker), 74 

Charles Herbert, 74 

David, 246 

Eliza Jane. 74 

Ellen Adelaide, 74 



Snow, Fannie E. (Vail), 74 
Fanny (Vail), 75 

George Bartholomew, 74 
George Winfield, 74 
Helen (Rider), 74 

Jemima M. (Doane), 227, 
245, 246 

Julia Emma, 74 

Lucy Ann, 74 

Margaret (Patten), 74 

Minerva (Grant), 67, 73-5 
Southworth, Charles A., 74 

Eliza Jane, 75 

Eliza Jane (Snow), 74 
Spaulding, Lucy (Tift), 114 
Spencer, Gen., 363 

Asenath (Hollister), 221 

John, 220 

Joseph, 106 

Mary (Pitkin), 222 

Ogden, 221 

Owen. 222 

Samuel, 27 
Speor, Christina Brisban, 
348 

John, 348 

Vashti, 348 
Sperry, Rhoda, 204 
Spicer, Abel, 33, 36-9, 41, 147 

Abel Cbapman, 41 

Adah (Griswold), 41 

Alathea (Allen), 39 

Daniel, 41 

Edward, 41 

Elizabeth, 33, 40, 41 

Elizabeth (Morse). 4: 

Eunice, 41 

Francina (Chapman), 41 

Hannah, 41 

Herbert, 41 

Isaac, 41 

John. 35, 41 

Katherine (StoneL 41 

Lucy (Babcock), 41 

Mary, 33, 30-41 

Marv (Geer), 41 

Mary (Park), 41 

Mercy (Cbapman). 35, 41 

Oliver, 33. 39 

Park, 41 

Peter, 41 

Pbebe (Butts), 41 

Rachel, 33, 40. 41 

Sarah, 41 

Sarah (Allyn), 39 



INDEX. 



387 



Spicer, Sarah (Newton), 41 

Sarah (Park), 41 

Sarah (Rose), 41 
Spooner, Alden, 233 

Anna, 233 

Cynthia, 233 

Hannah, 233 

Jonathan, 233 

Margaret, 233 

Mary, 227, 230, 232, 233 

Mercy, 233 

Micah, 227, 232, 233 

Patience, 233 

Patience (Crapo), 233 

Priscilla, 233 
Squires, Ellen (Lum), 292 

John, 292 
Stanley, Anna. 27. 28 

Anna (Whiting), 28 

Gad, 137 

Mary (Marshall), 28 

Nathaniel. 25, 27, 28 

Sarah (Boozey), 27 

Thomas, 27 
Stannard, Lydia, 245 
Stanton, Abigail, 53, 183, 185 

Amos, 184 

Anna, 53, 59 

Anna (Lord), 53 

Anna (Palmer), 61 

Catherine (Page), 53 

Daniel, 33, 51, 53 

Daniel C. 53 

David. S3 

Dorothy, 47, 122 

Edward. 33, 51, 52, 53 

Elisha, 53 

George Samuel, 120 

Hannah (Alander), 53 

Hannah Lord, 59 

Hannah (Palmer), 62 

Harriet A., 120, 122 

Henry C, 120 

Isaac Wheeler, 49. 147 

James, 53 

L»cy. 33, 51-3 

Martha, 118 

Martha (Page), 53 

Mary, 53 

Mary (Chesebfough), 53 

Mary ( Eldridge), 51, 53 

Mary (Whiting) Parks, 53 

Nancy Lord (Wheeler), 
109, r 16-122, 

Nancy (Wheeler), 42 



Stanton, Phebe, 53 
Samuel, 53, 119, 120 
Thomas, 53, 59, 185 
Zebulon, 62 

Staples, Capt, 343 

Starr, Abbyline (Tift), 109- 

115 

Ambrose Markham, 363 

Benjamin, 115 

Lucy Ann, 28 

Mary Elizabeth, 1 15 

Nicholas, 114, 115 

Permelia (Corey), 115 

Thomas, 115 
Stearns, Achsa (Burnap), 
299 

Tames, 299 

Mary, 98 

Sophia (Burnap), 299 
Steel, Anne, 163 

Frances Ann, 164 

George, 161, 163, 164 

Henry Tudor, 164 

Hepzibah, 163 

James, 163 

Jonathan, 163 

John, 155, 161-4 

Lucy (Smith) Saxton, 
161, 164 

Manning, 164 

Mary, 163 

Mary Augusta, 161-4 

Rebecca, 164 

Ruth, 163 

Samuel, 164 

Sarah (Bull), 164 

William, 163 
Steele, Mary Augusta. 155 
Stevens, Mary, 121 
Stiles, Esther, 158 
Stillman, Paul. 47 
Stockder, Edith Love, 242 
Stoddard, Eleanor A. (Ex- 
ton), 94 

Mercy. 41 

Seth. 04 
Stone, Katherine, 41 

Rebecca, 241 
Strickland, Abigail, 367 

Ammiel, 285 

Amy, 269, 284, 285 

Annie, 284, 285 

Annie (Shepard), 285 

Asenath, 285 

Emily, 285 



Strickland, Emily Hollister, 
107 

Jane, 285 

John, 285 

Martha, 285 

Richard, 285 

Sabia, 285 

Seth, 269, 284, 285 

Susan, 285 

Susan (Penfield), 285 

Vienna, 285 
Strond, Rhoda, 176 
Stuart, Betty, 215 
Sturges, Raymond, 87 
Sullivan, Gen., 173, 274, 277 
Sutliff, Hannah, 153 
Swan, John, 122 

Mary (Smith), 122 

Richard, 122 

Ruth, 122 

Susannah (Eastman), 122 

Timothy, 122 
Swartout, Col., 306 

William, 243 
Sweetland, Asenath, 219, 220 

Israel, 221 
Swetland, Alva, 257 

Benjamin, 250-8, 260 

Cynthia, 257 

Daniel, 251, 257 

Florida, 251, 257 

Jamin, 257, 259 

Lovicy, 257 

Luke, 251, 257 

Lyman, 257 

Marcia, 257 

Polly, 257 

Rosanna, 257 

Rosanna (Hancock), 257 

Sevilla, 257 

Warren, 257 
Swift, Heman, 180, 191, 239, 

308 
Sykes, Jesse, 19 

Mercy, 18 

Tabor, Hannah, 319 

Taft, Mary E. (Pierce), 301 

Willis fi„ 301 
Talbot, Miranda, 98 
Talcott, Henry, 31 

John. 28 

Lucy, 31 

Mary Kingsbury, 266, 288 
Tallmadge, Benjamin, 73 



•88 



i x i > i ■ \ . 



Talleyrand, Charles Maurice 

de, S 
Tannatt, Joshua, F., 84 
Persis j. (Eveleth), 84 

Taylor, Martha Hollister, 
221 

Terry, Abigail, 257 
Elizabeth, 22 

Emily (Gillet), 22 
Tra, 22 
John, 22 
Laura, 22 

Mahala, 15, 20-3, 147 
Martha Gridley, 22 
Orrin, 22 
Roswell, 22 
Samuel, is, 20-3 
Sarah M. (Mills), 22 
Timothy, 15, 21 
Thomas, Ann Eliza (Hale), 

I hompson, Abigail, 171 

Ann, 6, 10 

Dorothy, 121 

Fanny, 308 

Frances Maria, 285 

Jabez, 289 

James, 6, 10 

Lucius E., 285 
Thomson, Anthony, 203 

Bela, 204 

Caroline. 204 

Charles, 204 

Daniel, 203 

Eunice, 204 

George. 204 

Hannah, 204 

Hannah Lucretia, 204 

1 lannah ( Perkins ), 204 

Isaac, 204 

James. 204 

John, 203 

Lucy, 204 

Patience Amanda, 204 

Rhoda Augusta, 105, 203- 
205 

Rhoda ( Sperry), 204 

Susan J.. 222 

Susannah, 204 

Thaddeus, 10;. 203-5 

Thomas Merritt, 204, 205 

William Peters, 204 
Thorp, Eliphalet, 85. 88 
Thresher, Mary J. (Quill), 
130 



Thresher. Nathan S., 139 
Tift, Abby, j 14 

Abbyline, 109-115 

Amos, 114 

Betsey. 113. 114 

Eunice (Burrows), 112. 

114 
Hannah Forsythe, 1 14 
Joseph, t 1 1 
Joseph Burrows, 114 
Lucy, 114 

Lucy (Brewster), 11 1 
Lydia, 114 
Mary, 112, 114, 115 
Mary Ann, 114 
Nancy, 114 
Nelson, 112, 115 
Phebe, 114 
Rebecca A. ( Braman ) , 

114 

Sally, in, 114 

Solomon, 109-115 
Tisdale, Billings, 136 

Laura (Root), 136 
Todd, Ambrose, 235 

Charles. 235 

Chauncey, 235 

Christopher, 235 

Clarissa (Porter), 2^7 

Eli, 235 

Esther, 236 

Esther Lowly, 236 

Hannah, 235 

Irene (Rogers), 236, 2^7 

James A., 153 

Jonah, 227, 235 

Lucella M. (Upson), 153 

Lucy. 235 

Martha, 2^,7 

Mary. 234-7 

Rebecca, 2^() 

Samuel, 233 

Stephen, 235 

Thaddeus, 235 

Thelus, 227, 235-7 

WylK s, 2^> 
Tolles, Mary. 12 
Tomlinson, Charles, 290 

Esther (Candee), 290 

Jane Caroline, 289 
Topham, John, 111 
Ti iw u. Benjamin, 300 

Lucretia (Holly), 303, 304. 
308, 309 
Townsrnd. Annie C. 10 



T( ►wnsend, David, 10 

Eliza (Gerry), 10 
Tracy S. Emeline, 350 
Treat, Samuel, 265 
Tredway, Caroline, 237 
Trumbull, Jonathan, 181, 

198, 200, 363 
Tryon, Gen., 12, 79, 191, 199, 

236 
Tubbs, Lemuel, 219 
fucker, Daniel, 290 

Laura (Candee), 290 
Tuller, Augusta Way, 177, 
186-8 

Elizabeth Way, 188 

Margaret Augusta, 188 

Nelson, 188 
Turnev, Anna (Banks), 87 

Robert. 87 
Tuttle, Ardelia. 153 

Hezekiah, 148, 150 

Nathaniel, 187 
Tweedy, Mrs. John, 193 
Twichell, Jane Carter, 144 
Twiss, Sarah, 241 
Tyler, Ann. 310, 311, 343 

Anna ( Rogers ). 343 

Esther (Robbins), 158, 
310, 31 r, 325 

George, 15S. 325. 343 

John, 159. 173, 311. 343 

Lathrop, 343 

Martha. 41 

William. 343 

Upson, Ardelia (Tuttle), 

1 53 
Eleanor (Wilson), 87 
Esther Cook, 153 
Leroy, 153 
Lois (Johnson), 131, ^S 2 ~ 

154 
Lucella Melissa. 153 
Lucian, 153 
Lucius, 153 
Minerva. 220 
Sophronia Elizabeth, 153 
Usher, lluldah (Foote), 

348 

Oliver, 348 
Robert. 356 
Roberts. 348 
Susannah ( Gates 1. 348 
Utley, Terusha (Clark). 361 
Lewis. 361 



INDEX. 



389 



Vail, Fanny Egbertene, 74 
Valentine, Lucinda, 334 
Vanauken, Ann M., 54 
Van Pelt, Maria, 94 
Van Vechten, Caroline, 280 
VanVleck, Electa A. (Man- 
chester), 310, 311, 319 

Volkert H., 319 
Von Moltke, Count, 312 
Yon Waldersee, Count. 312 

Mary, 313 
Vose, Mittie, 291 
Vost, Col., 69 

Wade, Nathaniel. 299 
Wadsworth, Elizabeth, 20 

James, 20, 28, 49, 73, 147, 
200. 335 
Waechter-Lautenbach, Jo- 
sephine ( Lee), 313 
Wainwright, Mary, 121 
Wakeman, Stephen, 79 
Waldersee, Alfred, 316 

Josephine, 313 
Wales, Capt., 70 
Walker, Betsey, 275 
Wallace, Martha, 221 

Mary. 158 

Rhoda, 221 
Ward. Delia (Bidwell). 253. 

260 
Warner, Robert. 323 

Sarah, 186 

Seth, 186, 198 
Warren, Albert F., 307 

Delia ( Lockwood), 307 

Ella, 307 

Emma, 307 

Harriett ( Way), 125 

Isaac, 305 

Joseph, 167 

Joseph R., 125 

Nancy A. (Gifford), 303- 

307 
Washburn, Gardner S., 301 
Hannah, 175, 176 
Julia (Pierce). 30T 
Polly, 305 
Washington, George, 22. 40, 

73, 83, 101, 134. t37, M7. 

167, 1S4. 1 So, 187, 200, 

220. 230. 241, 245, 268. 

278, 281, 294, 319, 321, 

3.M- 333, 334, 342, 343. 

356. 358, 367 



Washington, Martha, 220 
Waterbury, David. 117. 291 

Gen., 335 
Waterman. Xehcmiah, 62 
Watrous, Clark Monories, 
362 

Emilia (Clark), 345, 353. 
361, 362 

John. 362 

Mary Jane. 362 

Monories, 361 
Watson, Titus, 308 
Way, Annis, 188 

Augusta, 177, 186 

Betsey (Coles), 188 

Caroline, 123-6 

Edna. 125 

Electa. [88 

Elisha, 123-6 

Eliza, 188 

Emma, 125 

Esther. 125 

Eunice, 125 

Eunice (Crocker), 125 

George, 125 

Harriett, 125 

Henry, 125 

Hepzibah, 188 

Trena. 188 

Isaac, 186-8 

John, 188 

Justus, 188 

Lewis, 188 

Maria, 188 

Mary, 125 

Mary (Northrop), 188 

Mercy (Baldwin), 186, 188 

Sally] 188 

Thomas, 125 
Wayne, Anthony, 331, 333, 

334 
Weatherby, Charles S.. 280 

Frances N. ( 1 [ollister ). 
280 
Webb, Abigail, [68 

Charles, 170. 187. 265, 277, 
278 

S. B.. 184 

Samuel B., 163, 294 

Samuel Blatchley, 38 
Webster, Ebenezer, 201 
Welles. Samuel, 219, 220 
Wells. Barbara, 43. 46, 47 

Bayze, 187. [98 

Bridget, 128 



Wells, Edw. Livingston, 90 

Fanny, 43 

James. 43 

Lucv, 277, 278 

Marlboro, 12X 

Mary ( Barker). 43 

Nancy, 4^5 

Sally (Moore), 128 
Wentz, Annie. 340 
West. Mrs. A. A., 95 

Benjamin, in 
Westcott, Clarissa 11., 274 

Edwin, 274 

Esborn, 274 

Harriet B., 274 

John, 274 

Julia Granville, 270. 274, 

275 

Martha, 274 

Mary. 274 

Mary ( San ford ). 274 

Sanford, 274 

Stakely. 274 

William. 274 
Weston, Hannah, 161 
Wheeler, Alfred, 295 

Almira (Phelps), 119 

Amelia (Chesebrough), 
119 

Augusta (Miner), 119 

Bradford, 205 

Bridget ( Noyes), 122 

Calvin, 119 

Charles P.. 1 19 

Elijah Ward, 205 

Eliza, no. 287. 204. 295 

Elizabeth Denison, 119 

Emily M.. 119 

Esther (Buddington), 119 

Flavel, 295 

Frances A., 119 

Frances S.. 119 

Gardner Flavel. 295 

George Washington, no 

Grace Denison. 4S. 50. 53 

Hannah, no. 122 

Hannah ( 1 [olmes !. 122 

Harriet Sophia, no 

i [ezekiah, 287, 294. 295 

Homer, 121 

Homer Holmes, no 

isaac, \2, 100. 117-122 

John Holmes, 119 

John Wesley, 2115 

Joseph, 52. 53 



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INDEX. 



Wheeler, Joseph B., 295 

Josiah, 295 

Lucv. 53 

Lucy (Stanton), 33, 51, 52 

Luretta (Jeffereys), 119 

Lydia, 128 

Martha Ann, 119 

Martha (Parke), 121 

Mary, 121 

Mary A. (Roberts), 119 

Mary Ann, 42, 109, 117, 
119 

Mary (Denison), 119 

Mary (Denison) Collins, 
119 

Mary (Miner), 121 

Mary (Shepherd), 121 

Meribah, 295 

Meribah (Bishop). 295 

Nancy, 295 

Nancy Lord, 109, 1 16-122 

Noyes, 119 

Olive (Burdick), 118, 119, 
121, 122 

Pitts Stanton. 119 

Rebecca (Roberts), 119 

Richard A., 65 

Ruth (Swan), 122 

Sarah E. (Briggs), 119 

Sarah Maria, 119, 121 

Sophia P. (Chesebrough), 
119 

Stiles Denison, 119 

Susan, 201 

Susan (Wilcox), 119 

Thomas, 121 

Thomas Jefferson, 119 

William Nelson, 119 
Whelpley, Sarah, 213 
Whipple, Susannah, 69, 72 
White, Columbus, 259 

Emily (Strickland), 285 

Mary A (Pierce), 259 

Sarah, 191 
Whitehead, Samuel, 334 
Whiting, Col., 88, 292 

Almira, 158 



Whiting, Anna, 28 

Charles, 163 

Joseph, 28 

Mary, 53 

Samuel, 79 
Whitmore, Sallie, 98 
Whitney, Hannah, 344 

Sarah, 90 
Wiggins, Salina M., 259 
Wilcox, Capt., 141 

Benjamin, 107 

Betsey (Savage), 107 

Laura (Savage), 107 

Richard, 107 

Susan, 119 
Willard, Emma, 281 
Williams, Anna, 54 

Anna (Stanton), 53 

Betsey, 54 

Betsey (Eddy), 275 

Ebenezer, 97 

Edward, 53 

Evelyn Bailey, 295 
Florence Nightingale, 276 

Jeremiah, 275 

John, 293, 318 

Lizzie J., 126 

Lucy, 54, 74 

Mary Kendrick, 33, 54 

Mary (Stanton), 53 

Ralph, 54 

Roger, 50, 74 

Rufus, 33, 54 

Ruth (Chapman), 54 

Samuel William, 184 

Wareham, 53 

Whitman, 54 
Wilson, Benjamin, 85, 87 

Eleanor, 87 

George, 74 

James, 338 

Julia (Banks), 77, 85-7 

Julia E. (Snow), 74 

Julia M., 87 

Marvin B., 87 

Mary S., 87 

Morris L., 87 



Wilson, Moses A., 87 
Winton, Mary (Banks), 87 

Peter, 87 
Witter, Albert, 45 

Eliza (Noyes), 45 

Eunice, 45 
Wolcott, Erastus, 105, 137, 

363 

Mary (Smith), 84 

Oliver, 127, 201 
Wood, Benjamin, 320, 321 

Joseph, 299 

Lucy (Burnap), 299 

Maranda, 98 

Mary, 322 
Woodman, Caleb, 263 

Lucy W. (Foster). 263 
Woodruff, Asahel, 229 

Catherine (Langdon), 229 

Mary, 133 

Selina, 146 
Woodward, Julia M., 366 

Mary A., 259 
Woodworth, Asa, 57, 61, 62 

Hannah, 61, 62 

Horace, 302 

Lydia Sessions, 108 

Mary E. (Burns), 297, 302 
Wooster, Augusta, 287, 291, 
292 

David, 149, 199, 292 

Ephraim, 287, 291, 292 

Mittie (Vose), 291 
Wright, Hannah (Wheeler), 
119 

Obadiah, 81 

Rachel, 258 

Sarah, 81 
' Sarah (Adams), 81 

William, 119 
Wyllys, Mary (McLean), 
345, 367, 368 

Samuel, 27, 106, 323, 329 

Yeoman, Jonas, 306 



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